<p>I'm sending a CD. I asked a Harvard admissions rep and she said sometimes they send it to the music department and sometimes they don't even consider it. ouch!</p>
<p>i wish everybody had art attack or deviant galleries. i am SO curious.</p>
<p>thank you guys for your comments. it made me feel a lot better. :)</p>
<p>yea, don't worry about it candlize. we just can't compare oranges to apples, let alone excellent oranges to excellent apples (i don't care about logical fallacies; ivy admissions are absurd as it is), and besides, i doubt the supp counts for much :/ i'm not sure, but chances are that we will not receive recommendations from the art dept (the standards must be sky high), and whether we do or not will have little effect on our apps anyway. harvard doesn't care enough about art.... laughs. i'm being a real pessimist. but when so much is at stake, i'd rather expect the worst. disappointment is too evil.</p>
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<p>whether we do or not will have little effect on our apps anyway</p>
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<p>I don't think that's true...assuming that you meet Harvard's academic expectations, a strong reaction to your supplemental material can make the difference for you. If an art professor sees/listens to your work and tells the admissions office, "This kid is the second coming of Yo-Yo Ma/Jackson Pollock/Meryl Streep," you're getting in.</p>
<p>Really? Wow... that's encouraging. So, Hanna, does the art departement only review the suppl. material or does the adcom as well?</p>
<p>The supplemental material is considered very much in admissions. I have always seen that people who send in supplemental art materials always get in (of course, their stuff is amazing) and I feel pretty confident it will give me a boost. Not only does it showcase one of your many talents, but it is also a demonstration of how you care enough about the school to organize something like that and take the time to prepare it and send it to them. It also highlights one of your passions. </p>
<p>However, musicians are not always accepted, because there usually are so many of them. (Usually asian, upper middle class, piano/violin) So how unique is a minority artist? lol</p>