Art as an EC for non-art major??

MidwestParent
Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:49:43 +0000

First I will say I am not an expert in the area, but also have an artistic daughter who will not be an art major. She did not include any of her pieces with her applications, but played up the role of art in her ECs and in her essay. She has created watercolor paintings for a national organization that they then turned in to holiday cards and sold as a fundraiser. She has also sold a lot of art over the past five years and donated the proceeds to this national association (in excess of $5,000 to date). I tried to get my daughter to slip one of the holiday cards in with her application, paste in a small copy of one of her lovely iris paintings at the bottom of her EC list, but she refused. She said, “They are always telling you NOT to do that on applications.” She also listed the art awards she has received in her ECs. She wants to experience art at the college level, but not major in it.