<p>The UVa art department looks good! I have an admissions question for you:</p>
<p>Some universities look heavily at the applicant’s portfolio and in some cases a B+ student with an excellent portfolio is more desired than say an A student with a lesser portfolio. Would you say that’s the case at UVa?</p>
<p>From the info provided on the website it looks like UVa art might be heading for becoming a professional school within the university. Am I reading too much into that?</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your feedback everyone! :)</p>
<p>I did figure out that I could send in a CD of my artwork but I agree with fineartsmajormom - at first glance it was a bit difficult to decipher whether they only accepted slides or not.</p>
<p>Haha yes, of course I lined up back-up schools too. Although it still remains at the top of my list, I understand how competitive UVA admissions are and that I need other options if I am not accepted.</p>
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Wheaty- I completely agree, I actually searched online for some but couldn’t find any.</p>
<p>Dean J -
I know it doesn’t say it on the fine arts supplement requirements but I feel like I saw somewhere (i think on a different CC question from a while ago) that UVA recommends/requires? a recommendation from an art teacher when submitting a fine arts supplement. I could be wrong but I just wanted to double-check. If so, would this go along with the other recommendations I’m sending in when I send my actual application or do I send this recommendation with the rest of my fine arts supplement by December 1st? </p>
<p>I was also wondering that same thing that Wheaty asked in her last post.</p>
<p>@OP, if you get slides made, you have to plan ahead a bit. My D needed slides for one app (Columbia) and after much calling, we found a lab that could convert digital images into slides. It took 4 or 5 business days. They were very cute and we wished we had ordered one or two extra. They cost about $6 each.</p>
<p>Mr dean
I know it is wrong thing to ask at the moment but how did you make your name Italic-anized?
do you think “bears and dogs”( did it come out Italic? no? hummm) in Italics make me look less fat?</p>
<p>ps
Wheaty is loving caring dad = he, must be cooking up plan for D2, or venturing to become VA kingpin.</p>
<p>I read in one of those college guide book for art major few years back, why people (used to) prefer slide.
one admission guy said
" you just slap them on the light table and done, easy!"
I can see that, and I like light table but are forks still gotten those in art dept.?
we had to ditch big one because there just not enuff room with all other new must have gadget.</p>
<p>There were few website made them quick/good price back then. it was debated often here and posts were all in this forum, thou I don’t know they are still doing business.</p>
Perhaps that was in relation to another school? The faculty are just interested in the supplement and the cover sheet (and in one case, a resume is permitted). Just follow the instructions on the cover sheets, which can be found on the Office of Admission website:
[Visual</a> and Performing Arts Students, Admission Information, Undergraduate Admission, U.Va.](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/arts.html]Visual”>http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/arts.html)</p>
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Every case is different, so it’s hard to throw a blanket answer out to this question. I know it would be comforting for me to cite some sort of policy, but all I can say is that a stellar art supplement (really the evaluation we get from the faculty reviewer) can definitely help an applicant in the process.</p>
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I haven’t heard anything…but the Office of Admission wouldn’t be involved in those conversations.</p>
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Ms. Dean. People just call me Dean J. Dean is a title, not a name. :)</p>
<p>Those of us on the college side have to verify our identities with College Confidential to participate. College Confidential gives our profiles the slightly different appearance.</p>
<p>You can look up simple BBcode to incorporate italics, bold, and color into your posts.</p>
<p>oh, sorry.
I did mean by your title but bad guesser gender-wise, no sexist or anything.
I still can’t make anything Italics. it shows in here pre post OK but come out regular when it’s posted. maybe it’s my mac. I give up and stay fat.</p>
<p>Bears and dogs,
Thank you for your kind words. I do have another daughter, and I’ll write about her in a different thread. I don’t want to highjack this UVa discussion.</p>
<p>I don’t have any connection to UVa and my younger daughter most likely won’t go there (she wants West Coast). My enthusiasm for UVa comes from my long standing belief that there are many really good art departments within great universities and, for whatever reason, they aren’t talked about in this forum. UVa is a good example, so is Michigan, Duke, U of Washington, U of Penn, U of Georgia, etc., etc. These schools have the ability to attract top notch professors, they have the resources and facilities, they get the students, and my guess is that they all turn out a very good BA art student after 4 years.</p>
<p>IMO, programs like these deserve more attention from the art community. But that’s just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>I like UVa a lot. It’s been a top university for as long as I can remember, it has a beautiful campus, and it would be a wonderful place to spend 4 years improving and learning.</p>
<p>I also get a bit excited whenever there’s a chance to get unfiltered information from an admissions officer. All of us spend so much time guessing about what might work and every so often we get a few facts to help us find our way.</p>