<p>The instructions simply say 1 page of slides. I don't have slides since this year the AP is using online-portfolio submission, so our teacher is no longer making slides for AP art. Could I just attach a PDF in additional information? Or should I get my portfolio printed at kinkos?</p>
<p>If they want SLIDES give them slides. You may have to rely on yourself vs. your over worked and underpaid teacher. Physically take your artwork- photograph it with the best camera you can borrow and get slides printed....Just give 'em what they want.</p>
<p>If you are willing to pay, there are companies that will do this for you. I submitted 20 slides, each cost about $5 to scan and $5 to have turned into slides. I'm in LA and the company is called A & I. Dont know if thats relevant to you....</p>
<p>Somewhere on one of the Columbia threads, one girl said she just sent in images of her art work. But, she was not planning on going into art; she just wanted to demonstrate her ability. And she got in. So I guess it's your call.</p>
<p>Where do you find the specific document for the Columbia art supplement?</p>
<p>I just found that 1 line in the instructions.</p>
<p>yeah, same here! do you think that it would be okay to just mail stuff in a marked envelople?</p>
<p>I'm not majoring in art, but I want to show them my time commitment to AP Art. Should the envelope be padded somehow? I don't want anything to break... Also how many stamps would one put? Would it still be 2 stamps for a 9x12..?</p>
<p>I have no way of making slides where I live, so I popped an email to the Admissions Office to see if I could send in a digital portfolio on a CD. They said it was fine, so I went ahead and did it. :)</p>
<p>Really? Because I called admissions and they told me they wouldn't except CDs. But the whole entire college admissions process is overly exhaustive and I probably wont get in anyway, so I'll just mail a CD</p>
<p>She also said that there is a form to fill out; but I cannot find it anywhere. Anyone know where it is exactly?</p>
<p>That's so weird, I just recieved an email today based on my inquiry, and the woman sounded pretty adamant about slides. She didn't say digital images, or cd would work. Ugh. I have no way to get slides that soon, it's so unlikeley for me. Other schools like Brown, Stanford, etc accept whatever form you can send it in.</p>
<p>*accept</p>
<p>Where's the supplementary form to fill out? Help please!</p>
<p>There is no form. The website & instructions explicitly state just do this</p>
<p>Be sure to include your name, Columbia ID number or Social Security number (if applicable) and secondary school on each item you provide, and understand that such materials become part of your application and will not be returned to you.</p>
<p>I emailed them asking about the possibility of submitting a CD before senior year started. I don't know why we've had mixed responses: maybe they're getting more stressed as the applications roll in? :) Here's part of the email I received from them:</p>
<p>"You may submit a digital portfolio, but there's no guarantee that it will be looked at. Please note that this is an extra part of the application."</p>
<p>What return address would you put? Since my HS isnt sending it would I still put its address like I did on recs/transcripts?</p>
<p>I was planning to send in a few copies of my art work (even though I do not plan on majoring in the arts), but I'm not sure what they mean by "Artistic slides should be kept to one page and highlight the best work in your portfolio." I always thought that sending in a portfolio with like ten 8.5" x 11" photocopies of my works would suffice. Probably an ignorant question, but what is an artistic slide? Do they only want one page with scaled down pictures of my artwork, or do they mean one page for each different work? Or do they mean something else?</p>
<p>And @ pyn: the big 9 x 12 manila envelopes usually need at least $1.00 postage (meaning three 42cents stamps) But if it's a bit heavy, they may want more postage...your best bet would be to wait on line and pay the postage upfront (basically they weigh it, print you a postage, postmark it, and tell you how much to pay).</p>
<p>And I think the return address is your own mailing address, not your HS's.</p>
<p>Sounds like a good idea. :)</p>
<p>Also, slides are those mini transparent films in a plastic frame that you put in projectors. Before the age of digital portfolios you had to take photos of your artwork and had them processed into slides to send out i.e. like the AP exam.</p>
<p>The AP is transitioning to electronic portfolio submission though, so our school has terminated slide-production.</p>
<p>Oh, I see. I don't take AP Studio or any other AP art class (if there is any), so I'm not familiar with slides, electronic portfolios, or the like lol. I'm not even sure how to put images onto a CD. Making them into slides would be too costly for me. Do you think paper copies in a portfolio (like the ones they use for architecture portfolio) will be alright?</p>
<p>Also, any idea about a creative writing supplement?</p>
<p>I think that will be fine. They don't guarantee looking at any supplementary materials, but I think the adcoms and/or the department heads wont toss out a perfectly good CD or prints :)</p>
<p>Okay, thanks for the info and reassurance =)</p>
<p>Dude, i dont know if it's too late to tell any one of you guys, but load up pictures of your artwork on prodigitalphotos.com, make an RUSH order (they'll finish them for you the next day if you load the stuff before 10 AM Mountain time tomorrow) and send them out. U can do an overnight shipping (USPS or FedEx). i put my orders in on Monday 9 AM and got my stuff the next day. It was sweet :) It's cheap too. I think 1.75 per slides? yeah.</p>