Common App for Art Schools

glassharmonica
Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:36:33 +0000

I recommend that you search the common ap for the schools you’re interested in to see if they’re there, but your student should be prepared to write a lot of essays even for those school on the common ap, since most of them require supplements. Beware of SUNY Purchase and a few others who appear on the common ap-- but that’s the wrong application for theater majors.

I’m not sure how much importance is placed on the essays for auditioned performance majors.

Writing is one of my daughter’s strengths and I’m pretty sure that her essays were one of the reasons for her admission to some of her BA schools. But the school she chose, Fordham, had a very brief common ap supplement with no additional essays. (She did send them a sample for admission to the playwriting program, but that’s not required for other majors.)