SUPPLEMENTAL APPLICATIONS, WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PREPARE

Supplemental Applications are applications that are required IN ADDITION to the application you are filling with the university.  In the event you are doing the common application, you will submit another application to the school and then a third application is a supplement application is required.

What is a Supplemental Application?

A Supplemental Application is used if as a freshman you are applying to a specialized school such as the School of Art and Architecture or the School of Music or Film.  The university will accept you  and also the school you will be attending.  Most students will be going to Letters, Arts, and Sciences, and your classroom grades and activities will dictate to the school how you might do at their school once you are accepted, but when you are applying to a more specific school such as Art or Music, the schools have no way to measure how you will do and so they will ask for a supplemental application which will be a collection of all of your work products up to date.


If you are applying to the school of art, you will want to keep track and have pictures to provide of your work.  It usually will include 10-15 photographs.  If you are applying in fall to a school as an art major, take this summer to put together a sample of your work so schools can see what you have created. It will take time, so give yourself enough time to prepare.  You should find out how schools want your presentation submitted -- ie: video presentation, DVD, Slides, etc.  Each school is different, and you need to remember that many of the companies that put these type of presentations together for you will be closed between Thanksgiving and New Year's.

If you are thinking about being a music major, you probably will have to put together a small presentation to audition for the department.

Use this summer to prepare.  The application process is stressful enough,  add on the supplemental application, and you will be going crazy if you have not organized yourself a head of time.