<p>Hi! I was wondering if anyone out there was submitting an arts supplement to UChicago–either under the Common App arts supplement guidelines or, of more interest to me personally, an independent creative writing sample?</p>
<p>Just curious to see what talents my competition has. ;-)</p>
<p>Please share!</p>
<p>I applied to Chicago EA and I submitted an arts supplement. I’ve been playing violin for 11 years and I submitted a 10 min CD of two pieces.</p>
<p>I applied EA with a creative writing supplement! How long was yours/what genres did you include?</p>
<p>i also wanted to submit a creative writing sample. the website doesn’t specify a page limit - about how long was yours? i plan on submitting just a fictional short story but i’m not sure whether they are looking for one pages or five…</p>
<p>also, do you think it would be okay if i mailed it in seperately to the admissions office? i know some people attatched it into the additional info section online but my app has been submitted already…</p>
<p>Mine was 10 pages - I submitted 5 poems and a 5 page piece of nonfiction. My creative writing teachers told me that about 10 pages is a good length to go by. I mailed mine separately to the admissions office, and just put ‘re: my name’ in the address.</p>
<p>Really? Lol…I was debating which essays to put in there because I didn’t want it to exceed 7 pages >_>…I added no poems or newspaper articles either! It was all phil/poli sci papers :(.</p>
<p>I enclosed the first chapter of my eighth novel - it was about 20 pages. 
It’s my Independent Study project for this year, so I decided to just send the whole thing and not enclose anything else.</p>
<p>^did you type that correctly? Your EIGHTH novel?</p>
<p>daaaaaaang
well. I can assure you I don’t have eight novels</p>
<p>Wow, that’s pretty intense. I just submitted an abstract for a research paper I wrote.</p>
<p>so I was planning on submitting a music supplement too, but I have only prepared one piece, which is around 8 minutes long. but the commonapp supplement sheet says to prepare a 10 min piece of contrasting examples.
should i submit mine?</p>
<p>I’d say DEFINITELY submit a supplement! I suspect that mine is what got me in (I was accepted EA last week). I submitted the literary magazine of which I am EIC (and which has published a lot of my art and writing). The admissions rep for my area remembered my application because of it when he came to my school and mentioned a piece of my art that he liked. I also got a card from UChicago today that wished me a good holiday and luck with the litmag this year. </p>
<p>Your supplement might make you stand out; go for it! Oh, and I just put mine in an envelope with a cover letter and mailed in separately. </p>
<p>Good luck! :)</p>