<p>I applied to Harvard RD and was planning on submitting an arts supplement, since I have been a dedicated artist my entire life and felt it would be beneficial to my application. However there was ZERO mention of an arts supplement option on the Common App (as there has been for almost all the other schools that I have applied to) and so I assumed (stupidly) that Harvard did not have that option.</p>
<p>However I have recently found out thru a comment on one of the CC threads that there is in fact an option to submit an AS. The deadline is Jan 1, which has passed - do you think that I can still send it in?? I am figuring that they may be more lax about the deadline, since it is supplementary material.</p>
<p>I have emailed the admissions office, and I'm hoping that they are okay with me submitting it late, but what do you guys think? Has anyone else submitted an arts supplement?</p>
<p>The admissions officer responded and said I could send send it “in [their] mail…” I’m going to take this as meaning I can email the supplement as an attachment by email?</p>
<p>Hopefully it wasn’t a typo and they wanted me to send it in “BY mail.”</p>
<p>The same exact thing happened to me! I did not know I could submit a supplement because they do not use slideroom. I just sent in a CD about 5 days late.</p>
<p>I might be wrong, but from talking to college it seems to me that the Jan 1 deadline mostly applies to your common app and writing supplement. I think that most places will accept optional material after the deadline.</p>
<p>Yes it does seem that supplementary material is more flexible deadline-wise. I figured if test scores can be sent in after Jan 1 then arts supplement as well??</p>
<p>Has anyone used SlideRoom for their supplement? I am trying to email my portfolio as a .zip but the email system keeps saying the message file is too big…what to do… do you suppose if I’ve sent it through SlideRoom they’ll receive it?</p>
<p>I’ve sent in thru SlideRoom but I’m a bit worried that there might be a mess-up since it was sent under the “Requested by Admissions Officer” option instead of the regular one.</p>
<p>In the email they wrote “send one in MY mail” which I thought sounded odd?? You don’t suppose it could be a typo of “BY mail”? …and I’m not sure how I would sent one in by post, mine is a visual arts portfolio of drawings/paintings and I don’t have the resources to scan/print them out in high quality.</p>
<p>Honestly I don’t know why Harvard doesn’t put a link to their Slideroom on the Common App like every other college.</p>
<p>@wimmiett there’s no need for an excuse, if you really didn’t know the deadline they seem to be fairly flexible abt it! I think you should go for it, can’t hurt right.</p>
<p>“Honestly I don’t know why Harvard doesn’t put a link to their Slideroom on the Common App like every other college.”</p>
<p>I hate to rag on you, but it would have taken you about 15 seconds to find out whether and how to submit an arts supplement to Harvard, e.g. by googling “Harvard arts supplement”. It’s right there on their website. If you were really serious about your art, or about Harvard, why not do basic research like that? It’s possible they don’t automatically link it on the Common App website to thin out the volume of supplements (they take a while to evaluate, after all) while still letting in people who care enough to do their homework.</p>
<p>@catisforfite Yes thank you for pointing that out, I’m stupid for assuming that Harvard wasn’t a special snowflake and couldn’t be bothered to make the application process a little clearer for applicants! So sorry.</p>