<p>Ok, so I am applying to a number of schools (among them Yale, Stanford, William and Mary, SUNY Geneseo, U. Delaware, Boston College, etc.) and I am doing an arts supplement. I know there is a commonapp arts supplement but I'm confused as to how to figure out which schools will accept this or not (I know a lot of schools also have their OWN arts supplements instead). Does anyone know where I could find this out?
Also, I am doing a supplement for Music, Dance, and theater... I can do it all in one supplement, right? I can do say 3 minutes of video for each one and compile it together?</p>
<p>Thanks!!!
Answers are greatly appreciated because I am kind of flipping out!</p>
<p>You have to go to each college’s website to find out if they want anything special. I know Yale wants small jpg’s for art.</p>
<p>But do you really want to submit ALL four?? The supplement is only meant for really talented people… unless you really ARE great at art, music, dance, AND theater and was blessed under a golden rainbow with quad-talentry. The admission officers will more likely be annoyed by having to review so many supplements, especially if you’re not actually superb at each.</p>
<p>heyy thanks ugh that’s annoying that i have to find out for each school since i’m applying to like 11. and no, i’m only doing 3/4, i’m not doing art… but yes I am doing it for music, dance, and theater. they are huge extra curriculars for me and i’ve been doing all of them since elementary school, i’ve pursued them either professionally or semi-professionally so yes, i am sure lol. but do i have to submit a separate supplement for each section? do you know? or can i just submit one supplement for the three.</p>
<p>Given that, in the best case scenario, your dance, theater, and music supplements will be sent to different departments so that experts in the field rather than admissions officers will be able to assess them, yes, you should have a separate supplement for each area of the arts. Ultimately, you are going to have to make 33 separate supplements and be sure that all of them reach their destinations.</p>
<p>You do need to look at the website for each college to see what they want in the supplement for each area of the arts. (You might also check to see if they do in-person auditions, if you think that would be helpful. Stanford, for example, auditions both prospective arts majors and non-majors.) It is likely that the desired materials will be very similar across colleges, and you might be able to make a single CD for music, for example, that you copy 11 times and send everywhere. </p>
<p>But a couple of colleges might have very specific requirements that are a bit different, so keep that in mind. Also, be sure to pay attention to the deadlines for sending art supplements. Sometimes arts supplement deadlines are different from (and prior to) the regular application deadlines.</p>
<p>My final word of advise is to telephone the admissions office at each of your colleges after they tell you that your application is complete to make sure that each of the three arts supplements was logged into your file at each school. Keep some back-ups on hand that you can shoot off to schools that have misplaced supplements. It happens.</p>