<p>Yes, I know there have been a couple questions on this in the past, but it never hurts to ask again- and personally too.
So anyway, I've been taking art/painting/drawing classes for 10 years, and I have won first prizes in our state fair competition, as well as our state best 100 exhibition and the Scholastic Art (and Writing) Award in Silver Key.
I'm not like Picasso prodigy, but I definitely think my pieces are impressive enough-however, I won't be an art major. Not even close- I intend to apply to business/finance majors. I also want to go to schools like Cornell, Upenn, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, Rice, UNC etc.
Do you guys think this would bump up my extracurriculars a bit?
And also, what do you think about a painting that is copied from another painting, say from a magazine...(some of my portfolio is this as well). I mean, I never exactly copy it; I use it as a base picture then tweak things here and there, so the end product usually looks pretty different.</p>
<p>Don’t for CMU unless you are applying to the art school (there admissions is weird and won’t help you). As for the pieces based off of a reference image, you can include them but you need to credit the reference image. Finally it would depend on the quality of you art on whether or not I would recommend submitting a supplement. If you want to post or PM me links to some of you work I can give a more personal response (my school teaches us how to create and evaluate portfolios that get students into schools like RISD and MICA)…</p>