<p>1) How should I format my visual arts portfolio? Is a powerpoint suitable? Or should I just burn the images themselves onto the CD?</p>
<p>2) My teacher mailed in a letter of recommendation for me (for the Arts Supplement)- how does the college know it's on my behalf? My academic letter of rec (for the Common App itself) had the form to go with it, and I already know the college received it, but what about the Arts supplement one? I didn't think I had to send in a teacher evaluation form with that one, since it wasn't mentioned...should I have?</p>
<p>You need to email or call the individual colleges that you are applying to and they will tell you what format they prefer. They are idiosyncratic. I have a list for Reed, Macalester, Oberlin, Bard, Wesleyan, Grinnell, Carelton, Skidmore. If you are applying to any of these I can post the info. None of the aforementioned actually required the common app arts supplement. My daughter chose to send 8x10 photos of her work when possible, but this is very expensive. A CD works as well. Only Wesleyan and I believe Skidmore wanted slides. Make sure to have an index which includes: title, medium with specifics (graphite, watercolor etc), date produced and size of original. Schools seem to prefer 10-20 works. Show variety, they do not want to see 20 of the same thing.</p>