Rachel Shin

Private Tutor for

College Portfolio Prep

As a teacher, my focus is on guiding students toward their academic and artistic goals, helping them gain admission to their dream schools. I’m proud to have successfully mentored students into top-tier institutions, including the Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), University of Southern California (USC), Washington University in St. Louis, ArtCenter College of Design (Entertainment Design: Concept Art), CalArts (Character Animation and Experimental Animation), UC Berkeley, NYU, Ringling College of Art and Design (Computer Animation), Carnegie Mellon, and many more.


I work with only a select number of students at a time to ensure high-quality, personalized mentorship and close guidance throughout their journey.


Classes are 1 on 1 and are conducted online through zoom or in person, please reach out for current hourly rates


If you're interested in working with me, please reach out via email at RachelShin.art@gmail.com. I offer a free 20-minute consultation to get started.


Student Work examples

Here are selected portfolio works from students I’ve had the privilege of teaching and mentoring

Student Reviews

Here are selected reviews from students I have worked with in the past

Naomi

An Exceptional Art Mentor: Caring, Talented, and Insightful- A Perfect Guide to getting Into a Top Art School

"Our daughter worked with Rachel for about 1 1/2 years in preparation to create a portfolio to apply for communication design/graphic design major. Through structured weekly lessons, Rachel has given our daughter a great foundation in art techniques and design thinking. Her weekly lessons honed our daughter's technical and art skills. Rachel is a good mentor, and a good and fair teacher. She provides good art direction and is knowledgeable on what art schools are looking for. The caliber of work that our daughter produced would not have been possible without Rachel's mentoring as she really brings out the best in students, and we feel so blessed to have found her as she is truly an incredible artist and teacher. Our daughter had this to say about Rachel, "I had weekly lessons with Rachel for about a year and a half before I applied to a design program – I had virtually nothing in my portfolio, and within that time, I had tremendous strides in my technical/drawing skills; but if anything, I learned how to think like an artist. I recently got into WashU's Sam Fox School, in which WashU is ranked the #1 school for design in America according to niche.com. I owe an immensely large portion of my recent success to Rachel, and I wouldn't have it any other way"

Lionel


Organized, Talented and Inspiring!

"Thank you so much Rachel! We were behind in our high school portfolio preparations – but from our first meeting with Rachel, I could tell that she would take control and responsibility for the process, and that gave me enormous peace of mind. My son is loving his work, which is most important. And his portfolio has come together rapidly under Rachel’s guidance. She is an excellent teacher – very organized and focused, motivating, inspiring and talented! Thank you again Rachel! "

Sasha


GREAT TEACHER TO GET INTO YOUR DREAM SCHOOL

"We cannot recommend Rachel highly enough. She is an incredible teacher, very organized and very dedicated. She helped my daughter Sasha prepare her portfolio for college applications and with Rachel's help, Sasha got into RISD which was her dream school! Specific points that Sasha really liked were the variety of exercises proposed as well as the constructive and detailed feedback that Rachel continuously gave her and which contributed to greatly improving Sasha's technical skills and animation knowledge. Thank you Rachel!"