@renaissancedad Everyone on this site assumes I am a girl, I am boy :). I really don’t mean to come off as arrogant I’m not in that way. I want to submit a supplement not to add to my application but to sort of prevent something being taken away from it due to my short playing time. In my experience, people often dismiss me as a cellist based solely on the amount of time playing and I fear that without “proof” of quality playing the assumption will be that I am not very good.
It must have been amazing to work with such a force of Cello like that! Do you still play?
Do you think that not having a supplement would detract from listed accomplishments when I list how long I have played?
My teacher has always encouraged me to say on applications that I have played for much longer, because he says that he wants people to hear me without comparing it to some other value, like years played. I have felt pressure to do that even now, but I’m not about to jeopardize my application over something so trivial.