I saw that UPenn had an art supplement section on their application. I haven’t taken any art classes in school, but I took 3 months of class outside of school during middle school (so really not much.) However, I do enjoy photography. I have placed in two of my city’s local contests for my photos. Nevertheless, I am an amateur who lacks a professional camera. All the photos I have ever taken were on my iPhone, and I haven’t even edited a photo before. But my pictures did place, so is it worth it to send in 2-3 pieces?
Aside from art, I have pretty solid testing scores and extracurriculars, and I’m interested in UPenn’s school of nursing. Will sending in a portfolio hurt my chances?
I have same question as my sibling did Indian classical Bharatnatyam Arangetram (debut performance) after 10 years of training. Although she is not majoring in music or arts I wanted to see if we can send snippets of performance.What should be length of Video ? Does anyone know is it worth it to send?
Sending a portfolio will not hurt. Sending a subpar portfolio will hurt. Even if an applicant is not majoring in the arts, the portfolios sent are generally of the quality sent to conservatories, art schools, etc. If yours is not at that level, don’t send. You can still address as part of your essays, ECs, etc.
Please note that sending an arts portfolio does not mean that it will be reviewed. Admissions only sends a portion of the submissions for faculty review.
Even if they were Pulitzer Prize winning photographs, 2-3 is too few, IMO,to be meaningful.
To paraphrase Tonto: “What do you mean “we” kemosabe?”** We** are not applying to college.
For the future, your sibling needs to ask his/her own questions, preferably without, as happened here, hijacking another person’s thread. Also, there appear to be multiple people using your account as some comments seem to be written by a parent and others by a student; account sharing is not allowed You can ask questions about yourself and your children (or kids for whom you are the legal guardian), Accounts are free, so the student is able to open to open his/her own account to ask the questions.
But to answer your question, Penn specifies the types of supplements it will review; dance is not one of them;
