u/Salt_Outside_3234

I'm tired of pretending like I gaf about this. We'll live.
#bezen

I am not planning to apply to an art school nor am I a prospective art major of any sort. I was just wondering if submitting an art supplement will help my chances in admissions.

Art has always been my special interest, but I don't have any art-related awards. the only thing is that i got a 5 in ap art 2d design this year and have photography-related ECs. my ap art pieces were experimental photographies, tho, so the material is def not the most conventional art form anyway. the content in the portfolio has little to do with my narrative as an applicant, as well.

should I still submit a portfolio as a supplement (for schools that do accept art portfolios), or would it do harm in my app? does it depend a lot on the quality? I consider my pieces to be my personal best work, and my ap art teacher loved my portfolio, but I am not sure how it would look to an actual art professor.

Hi, I'm currently a rising senior battling with college apps. My stats are pretty mediocre (3.9 UW, 1520 SAT) and my ECs are still developing, but my biggest concern is that I have not earned any awards to write in the award section.

I've tried out for the AMC three times and submitted for multiple writing competitions from NYT to Scholastic, but I have never received an award. Not even gotten short listed. The best I've done ever was a top 25% recognition from a random NYT writing comp.

The only "awards" I have is the AP scholar distinction and president's volunteer service award. And probably PSAT commended student.

I am feeling pretty devastated as my parents have pushed me to enter for competitions since I was in 7th grade, and five years past, I have made no accomplishments. They sent me to math camps every summer, but I have never even gotten close to qualifying for AIME. I feel remorseful for not even having joined any competition teams at school, like science olympiad, mock trial, speech and debate, or robotics.

My parents think I will not get into any colleges with no awards and otherwise mediocre stats anyways. They used to bug me 24/7 about going out there and winning any award to appease them, but recently they have just stopped mentioning it.

I know colleges directly compare you with your peers, and most of the people at my school have won some sort of award whether it is scholastic art/writing, olympiads, films, etc. I just saw a guy from my school post about how they won john locke, and I feel like an extra loser and cannot stop comparing myself with others.

Idk, I sometimes just feel like a chud for not having any metric system to measure my competence, and my empty award section seems to prove that.