<p>“what kind of pieces make up the mosaic?”</p>
<p>If you go back and read the decisions results for your schools of interest, you can get a little bit of a feel for this. If you are, say, an azure ceramic tile from the east coast, its fine to apply to schools that are popular with azure ceramic tiles … just put in a couple of app’s where eastern azure tiles are a bit less common. </p>
<p>I think that one of the traps that it is very easy to fall into is to try to figure out what Chicago - or any school - wants, and sort of reverse-engineer the application to match. One of the dangers of doing so is losing your own, authentic voice within your application. If you are a wonderful azure tile, you need to present yourself well - brush off the dust, clean of the groat, point out the sparkly gold and copper flakes in your glaze … but don’t present yourself as a red earthernware tile if you are not one.</p>