<p>What is the best thing to do for the supplement? An essay? What else CAN you do?</p>
<p>William</a> & Mary - And the Best Conga Line Award goes to...</p>
<p>Be creative. You could do an essay, poem, collage, video, short story...</p>
<p>One d recycled an assignment from her 11th grade English class. She'd had to produce her own version of a page from a current magazine. She chose "The New Yorker" and included an essay about her (small) place in the Hollywood dream factory as an employee at the local cineplex, a short poem about a beehive, and a sketch of a pair of flip flops, using the New Yorker's layout, font, etc. I'd be surprised if anyone else submitted something similar, which I think is what the adcoms are looking for. Still, her sisters were also accepted, and they submitted the standard 5-paragraph essay -though the essays were kind of out there re subject matter and type of humor.</p>
<p>I've seen a few W & M optional submissions on youtube, which are neat. (I'd post some links, but I think we aren't supposed to on CC.) I suggest being as "you" as possible.</p>
<p>Would it be a bad idea to draw a self portrait using photoshop? Graphic design is one of my main hobbies.</p>
<p>I'd say that sounds like a good idea if it can show your creative side - and also if your common app essay shows good writing skills, since the adcoms very definitely want to see that, as well.</p>
<p>You can do anything at all as long as it's good. If you do something you're not quite sure about and it isn't good, then rethink it.</p>
<p>"Would it be a bad idea to draw a self portrait using photoshop? Graphic design is one of my main hobbies."</p>
<p>i actually did something like that--i'm really interested in graphic design as well, so i actually made a background for a sonnet i wrote in french in photoshop... and then i wrote a bit around that to kind of explain...</p>
<p>I actually mixed up my essays for the App and the supp. ]:</p>
<p>But it turned out okay, just a week of panic attack and drafting my essay a million times.</p>