<p>If your EC is, say, art, then how do you let Yale know how good you are at it--other than sending in portfolio?</p>
<p>btw, what would you consider the 2350+/3.8+ GPA @ really tough prep school with great ECs, recs, and essays good enough to have Yale send your portfolio to the art department for review?</p>
<p>My school does not offer any competitions for art. However we do have a program that lets us install a small exhibit in a professional private gallery. I've been seeking out art contests and I can probably get recognized internationally/nationally, and if I'm lucky, be featured in a magazine (it's part of a competition).</p>
<p>Also I plan on sending in an excellent supplemental rec, and possibly a resume? Other than studying privately under professional instruction for 6 years and pursuing it independently for 12+, and maybe some competitions and definitely a gallery display, I really have nothing else.</p>
<p>“what would you consider the 2350+/3.8+ GPA @ really tough prep school with great ECs, recs, and essays good enough to have Yale send your portfolio to the art department for review?”</p>
<p>Yes. Definitely send in your portfolio. If you’re good enough to be recognized internationally/nationally, it will show up in your portfolio. Sure, cite any awards you win and shows you’ve been in, but I suspect (based on one data point, mind you) that the portfolio will be where the rubber meets the road as far as proving “how good” you are. My daughter (whose overall record was pretty close to yours as summarized here) sent hers in, and I think it went a long way toward justifying her spending far more time on art than any other EC. I have no idea if the admissions office forwarded it to the art department, of course, but it certainly passed the laugh test. She didn’t do a supplemental art rec, though it probably wouldn’t have hurt. I don’t know what additional value a resume would have, but I’m somewhat obtuse on that subject.</p>
<p>PS - she got into Yale SCEA, which was a bit of (OK, a whale of) a surprise and I have to think her portfolio helped her to stand out from the pack.</p>