<p>When you submit a piece of work - art, dance tape, vocal recording to colleges that have this supplemental portion on their app, I believe that the department reviews this material. Then, they give a review with comments and a rating of 1-5 based on the performance and need. I am curious whether if submitting mediocre work relative to really top fine arts candidates affects adcoms admission choices. I am not saying submitting a recording of your bathroom shower singing, but I am simply wondering if submitting '3' level work, a resume, will still show adcoms the effort you have put and that you plan on improving at college.</p>
<p>I think that submitting mediocre work would simply irritate the adcoms. After all, its a lot of work for adcoms to line up appropriate faculty members to review that kind of work. It also is a lot of work for faculty to do such reviews. </p>
<p>Clearly, adcoms only want to take this time to arrange such things for applicants who seem to be very talented. The adcoms also don't want to wear out their welcome with busy faculty members who have lots more things to do than to review mediocre arts work from applicants.</p>
<p>many time prior to this thread, i always advise against sending such supplementals, unless:</p>
<p>1) you've won significant awards for those supplements
2) you're applying to study music, drama, etc. (which in this case you'll probably send a supplement that won awards anyway to showcase your talent)</p>
<p>Call the schools you're applying to and ask them if it's okay to send extra materials. Some will say no - and they'll mean it. If they do say no, DO NOT send them anything. That will annoy them - never a good thing. Some will say go ahead and send materials. Then, the rule of thumb should be that you send only the amount/level of supplemental materials that give them more information about you than they can discern from your application.</p>