General Advice regarding Arts Supplement

AdmissionsAddict
Mon, 25 Dec 2006 12:11:17 +0000

I wouldn’t send it to your RD schools. My understanding is that unless you are near conservatory quality, it’s not a wise move. I’m not familiar with other schools, but Yale discourages supplemental material, so if you’re going to send somthing in, it had better be well worth the admissions officers’ time. In the case of a CD, it gets forwarded to music faculty who rate your talent and report back to admissions. Taking up everyone’s time with something that isn’t top quality could aggravate an admissions officer and not put him/her in the proper frame of mind to read your application. That being said, if the rest of your application is amazing, it would be lame for Harvard to ding you just for sending in a CD.