A Fashion Design upperclassman fitting a shirt pattern cutout on a mannequin torso. Ten headshots of CCS Fashion students side by side. Photo of a CCS Student smiling and posing for a picture in front of a display torso with a large tan and brown chic backpack. Photo of a fashion studio with mannequins, a display board of sketches, a pair of yellow and black shoes, and a faux-leather purse with a chain strap.

Precollege Fashion Design Scholarship

Full Scholarships Available for Fashion Design Summer Course

CCS is excited to offer a limited number of high school students the opportunity to attend the College’s Precollege Fashion Design Summer Program at no cost. The three-week camp earns each student three college credits.

The Precollege Fashion Design Scholarships are made possible by a generous gift from Danialle and Peter Karmanos, Jr.

Fashion Design Scholarships

The CCS Precollege Summer Experience (PCSE) brings high school students from around the country and the world to the CCS campus to live, learn and study with CCS faculty. Scholarship winners will be selected from all submissions by a jury of faculty and industry professionals. Each winner will receive a scholarship to attend the College for Creative Studies Precollege Summer Experience Fashion Design Program and earn three college credits (value up to $4,395). The scholarship includes three weeks of faculty-led FAD studio class, three transferable college credits, housing, food materials and activities and round-trip transportation from the resident’s hometown to Detroit MI (up to $500 allowance for travel).

Scholarship awards from this program are tuition waivers for the Precollege Summer Experience program only. They are non-transferrable and have no cash value.

The Future of Fashion: Submit a mood board that includes inspirational images, your ideation, and fashion drawings and a one-page statement that summarizes your vision for designs and the Future of Fashion. The board can be digital or hand made. The importance is creativity!

Application Deadline

Submissions are due March 15, 2024. For more information and to submit your application, visit Slideroom.

Who May Apply

  •  Current high school freshman, sophomores and juniors or international equivalent who will have completed their first year by July 1, 2024.
  • US and international students

Submission Process

  • Create an account on Slideroom
  • Upload up to 5 illustrations (can be illustrations that were included in the mood board) and a 300-word max written or video summary of your vision. ** Most winners haven’t had any previous experience. You will learn the basic skills.

Timing & Deadlines

  • October 15, 2023
    Applications Accepted. Begin submissions.
  • March 15, 2024
    Entries due
  • April 15, 2024
    Winners announced via email and/or text
  • May 1, 2024
    Winners must accept scholarship award and submit Precollege Summer Experience commitment form.
  • May 15, 2024
    Winners must accept scholarship award and submit Precollege Summer Experience commitment form
  • May 15, 2024
    Winners confirm travel arrangements with CCS
  • July 7 – July 27, 2024
    CCS Precollege Summer Experience
Judging

Judges will evaluate each Finalist’s entry according to the following criteria, each weighted at 25%:

  1. Vision
  2. Originality
  3. Viability
  4. Concept and Presentation

Finalists with the highest overall scores from the Judges will be deemed potential winners pending verification of eligibility and compliance with these guidelines, as determined by CCS at its sole discretion.

General Rules
  • The decisions of the judges shall be final and binding in all matters pertaining to the Competition
  • Entry must not contain material that violates or infringes another’s rights, including but not limited to, privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright infringement
  • Entry must be the original work of Entrant
  • Entrants retain your rights to your illustration; however, by entering the contest, you grant the College for Creative Studies (CCS) a fully paid, royalty-free, world-wide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to publicly display, distribute, reproduce and create derivative works of the entries, in whole or in part, in any media now existing or later developed, for any CCS purpose, including, but not limited to, advertising and promotion of the CCS Fashion Accessories Design Challenge, and its website, exhibition, and commercial products, including but not limited to College for Creative Studies publications.