<p>No, but it would irritate me. We met every day during lunch and had a lot of applications to go through. The committee consisted of students and professors who all had other jobs besides reading applications. Our only pay was a free lunch.</p>
<p>Also, my experience currently as a member of the membership committee for a local art association is that the people who insist on bringing the whole portfolio (instead of just three finish pieces) inevitably have work in there that is less good, or that at least one member of the committee hates. Learning to edit is a an important skill. It was an architect who said “Less is more.”</p>
<p>I am currently in a good Civil Engineering program with a very rigorous curriculum that allows little flexibility in taking courses in humanities and art history. I am able to fit only one art history course for the next semester and my final year would be full of tech and engineering electives in order to graduate. Would such deficiencies prevent me from applying to top M.Arch I programs or put me at disadvantages while competing with applicants with BA and B.Sc degrees? On MIT’s website, there is a requirement of 6 semesters of humanities and social sciences, a condition that is nearly impossible to fulfill in my case. Should I even bother to apply such programs provided that I can produce a stellar portfolio?</p>
<p>Wonder if you can give some advices on this…</p>
<p>I don’t know MIT’s admissions office. My guess is that you’ll be fine at most schools, and probably at MIT too. Why not call the MIT office and ask for an opinion?</p>
<p>mathmom, thanks for your response. You are really helpful.</p>
<p>I have one more question for now: how much does it hurt (if at all) if you lack ONE of the non-art-history prerequisites (e.g. physics, calculus, or something else – but just one), but agree to take it during the summer if accepted (assuming they allow it)? I assume the strength of the portfolio and other factors would tend to significantly override lacking one non-art-history prerequisite, but I just wanted to make sure.</p>