Application Upload: Your Voice via Video

IN 2009, Tufts and George Mason University opened the multimedia floodgates by inviting applicants to submit videos. While few admissions offices have followed suit and added a video solicitation, a sweep through YouTube shows videos, from existential mulling to absurdist displays of multitasking, being made for a wide swath of institutions. The incentive is clear for students who express themselves best via multimedia, and who isn’t looking for an edge? […] Joseph Whitesman is clearly not shy in the video he made for New College of Florida. He wanted to underscore his “somewhat goofy interest” in collecting and analyzing data at the county level. He composed a ditty listing Florida’s 67 counties, and ended by doing loopy gymnastics around his yard.