<p>How many applicants to Harvard actually decide to submit any supplementary materials (recordings, art portfolios [I'm asking about art portfolios specifically, actually])?</p>
<p>How many more of those would be considered 'talented?'</p>
<p>Yes, I am obsessing over this. :)</p>
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<li><p>These numbers aren't released, and I highly doubt the office actually keeps tabs on it, as any samples go on to the respective departments and aren't evaluated by admissions officers themselves.</p></li>
<li><p>Who knows? Just put your best foot forward.</p></li>
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<p>How are things on the journalism front? articles from school newspaper (I'm the editor), newletter of an NGO (which I came up with from scratch, so yeah, I guess I'm editor), and community youth newspaper (I'm just a reporter on that one). look good? for supplementary materials, I mean. plus poems, short stories, first couple hundred pages to a novel, essays, research paper???</p>
<p>I'm a writer, by the way. Who knew?</p>
<p>Sorry for hijacking the thread, Acrylicz. Good luck!</p>
<p>Send it, obviously. If you're proud of it and it's been a significant part of your high school years, why should you not send it?</p>
<p>For my application last year, I only sent in an additional recommendation from my literary magazine adviser, and of course, wrote out a supplementary essay. EC wise and award wise, I'm very involved in the arts (along with a few other things, but that's a different story). But because of the deadline at the end of December and the CRAZINESS in my AP art class with my teacher shooting a billion slides for kids actually applying to <em>art</em> schools, I didn't send in my portfolio. </p>
<p>Then, in early March, I get an email asking me for my portfolio. After a crazy day of taking photos and creating a little web site, I was able to give my admissions officer my art portfolio of about 16 or so pieces before her deadline. Obviously the committee must've liked it (aka, thought I wasn't a fake), and voila, a happy day at the end of March. </p>
<p>Send in what you think will help you. But don't send in too much. I mean, if you were a poor admissions schmuck and had to wade through 100 pages of an unpublished novel by an applicant...yeah, not a pretty day. </p>
<p>From what I've gleamed from the members of FAP (Freshmen Arts Program, a pre-orientation program for the arts that you apply to), there doesn't seem to be all that many visual artists. A ton of theatre kids. But then again, the VES concentration offers quite a selection of studio courses (perhaps catering to a larger audience than FAP would indicate). </p>
<p>Anyways, send your best work. Don't send too much. And when in doubt, get a trusted teacher/guidance counselor to give you advice as to whether that English paper from 10th grade is really all that great.</p>
<p>I didn't know I should send sample articles for journalism. 0.0</p>
<p>ahh. I think I'm going to die now lol. Or look for published articles I did months agooo. meh.</p>