<p>I didn't really know what I wanted to do in high school, so my extracurriculars kind of sucked, and I even fooled myself into thinking I wanted to be premed. But after getting rejected from a lot of places (which was such a wake-up call), I realized that I wanted to pursue film, but in a liberal arts college setting (so not purely a film school and not completely going to some engineering school -- just applying to the college of arts and sciences for whatever universities). And to show that I was passionate about selecting a film studies major, I wrote some 120 page+ screenplay (and this wasn't a means to an end, but simply because I was passionate about a subject that I had been introduced to not that long ago). However, it hasn't been published anywhere or submitted to anything... it's just my own thing. I thought that writing a screenplay might help to distinguish me from other people, but I'm now starting to wonder if it's even appropriate to submit material like that in the arts supplement? On one hand, it's nothing more than something done in my free time and hasn't even entered anything or won anything like other kinds of arts supplements might have (poetry, books (at least those get published), music, etc.). But on the other hand, it's not as though an entire full-length screenplay can be shrugged off, right?</p>
<p>Furthermore, some colleges (like Stanford) explicitly label their arts supplement for “fine and performing arts”. What can I do there, if anything? </p>
<p>Highly selective colleges like S request that supplements only be submitted if the quality of work is high:</p>
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<p>Will S be impressed because you’ve submitted a 120 pg screenplay? Yes, but unless it’s excellent, it may not be in the way that you’d like.</p>
<p>Yes, but that implies I only submit quality work, which if I didn’t think it was, I wouldn’t be submitting it anyways. I’m just really insecure about the fact that it’s JUST a screenplay, that hasn’t won anything or isn’t officially recognized anywhere or anything. And just THAT seems amateur, in comparison to other mediums, in comparison to what may be specified in the art supplement category of different colleges. Can anyone clarify what can actually go into the art supplement?</p>
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<p>No, this part of my post address the fact that it may be subpar, sorry if the irony was too subtle:</p>
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<p>Listen, if you have no idea of the quality, and S ask for ‘extraordinary talent’, then that should tell you straight off not to send it. I hope this is direct enough.</p>
<p>No, I understood what you said the first time with the double meaning of having impressed them the wrong way, it’s just that I understand the quality from my own experience of rigorous corrections, reading actual screenplays and other eclectic resources in general. So if I didn’t think it was good, I wouldn’t even be considering submitting it in the first place, as is sort of the logical loop. But if we ignore Stanford aside… is the arts supplement the appropriate category to submit a screenplay, if a category were to be chosen to definitively submit my screenplay?</p>