<p>I'm curious about this fact that like MIT's standard for SAT is in range of 2350-2400, but what's the standard of the supplementals / portfolios that are submitted.
I can submit an art portfolio but I'm not an artist, but my skills are decent, nothing great. So my question is if I submit a portfolio along with my average-high academics will I be at an advantage compared to those to didn't submit anything ?</p>
<p>What sort of standards can be applied for art? I assume that style and quality varies widely among those who submit portfolios, but I don’t know of a good numerical scale for this :P</p>
<p>Submitting your portfolio can’t hurt, though. I say submit it.</p>
<p>How do people send those art works? Just draw and send??</p>
<p>@PiperXP
By standards I meant that I have seen people who have literally no skills competing & sending in their works, and also people whose works are simply outstanding but still didn’t compete or submit their works. Its just that how does the portfolios at MIT match up ?</p>
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You can find instructions for submitting art and music supplements [url=<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/apply/freshman/supplements]here[/url”>Creative portfolios | MIT Admissions]here[/url</a>]. The admissions office prefers that you send digital copies of the work via email.</p>
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Just submitting a portfolio doesn’t give you an advantage. The purpose of submitting the portfolio is to have it evaluated by MIT visual arts faculty members – after seeing your portfolio, they will tell the admissions office whether they would especially like to have you be admitted. Submitting an art or music portfolio is equivalent to athletic recruitment – it doesn’t really help you unless you’re quite good.</p>
<p>Submitting a portfolio won’t hurt you, for sure, and if art is an important part of your life, you should seriously consider submitting one. But don’t think that supplemental material is some sort of automatic extra credit – it will only help your application if it’s good.</p>
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<p>Thanks, I got most of my doubts cleared 
After reading many posts regarding the portfolios, I thought may be its something that adds up as an extra credit along with the academics, as they admissions officers will consider this as something beyond the classroom. But now I understood that it has to be super good to get considered as an extra credit.</p>
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<p>Well, I have a really lame question here.
My drawing book is full of stuff which I did over the few years, but most of them aren’t something brilliant or some sort of ‘Oh-my-god What an awesome work!’ kind of a work, but are surely creative. So here I want to ask you that shall I sketch up new good work rather than being only creative ?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I don’t think anyone on College Confidential can tell you if your art is “good” enough to submit as supplemental material, especially without seeing your portfolio. I think that if you have a strong enough interest in art to pursue it in college, it would awesome if you submitted a portfolio. I wouldn’t submit it just to get “extra credit” in admissions.</p>
<p>I recommend talking with art teachers at your school about your current works and your ideas for future works. I also recommend posting some of your current work on ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ and then requesting advice in the forums.</p>
<p>^ Very true indeed.
Definitely “good” varies from person to person, but here’s my question does MIT values the talent of the the artistic eye or the effort that he has put into making up good work ?</p>
<p>I’m sure that MIT Admissions would value both, but the MIT visual arts faculty members who will be evaluating the portfolio probably care most about the former.</p>
<p>Submit some good work and submit some creative work. You don’t need to overthink this, it can only help you :)</p>
<p>^ Hahaha, I’m thinking too much about this :D</p>
<p>Well I’ll submit my sketchbook where I have tons of stuff, many incomplete but lots of creative stuff. But is there any limit on the number of sketches I can submit ?</p>
<p>I don’t know of any limit. “Be reasonable.” Try to get 1-2 pieces for each different thing you can say about your art, and not overload the art department :)</p>
<p>@ Lidusha
I freaked out after seeing stuff posted on deviantart by artists. Ahhh… I’m probably millions of light years away from coming close to that level of artistry…egghh…!!!</p>
<p>!!! False! You can be extremely good without being anywhere near the best on deviantART. I recommend using it to get critique and learn from fellow artists; don’t get discouraged.</p>
<p>Extremely Good…How…???</p>
<p>Like, produce awesome art. Like a lot of people on DA who are not necessarily the best or most popular.</p>