Unitiled piece (Submitting to colleges on Sunday!!)

Hypothetically, if you were doing admissions at a music school and I, an inexperienced but very enthusiastic High School senior, submitted this along with another (choral) piece, would you want to let me in to your school? Just a hypothetical.

There's a few last minute changes I still need to make to this one before I submit. It's definitely one of my busiest pieces and i'm not a good piano player so i'm having a hard time editing this to make it playable without compromising my vision. Please let me know your thoughts (preferably before Sunday).

This might not be possible in the given time you have, but if there is a way to get your score through a different software that maybe looks a bit nicer I would try that. General information is to try expanding your harmony a little further, colleges like to see you explore modern harmony, you don’t have to be atonal but using more non standard chords and progressions will help. Also make sure you have a good explanation of why and how you wrote this piece. The why is usually the most important for colleges because it shows you can put thought and care into what you are creating.

Hope this helps

7 minutes ago, LayneBruce said:

if there is a way to get your score through a different software that maybe looks a bit nicer I would try that.

I'm putting the pieces i'm submitting into Sibelius and formatting them today!

8 minutes ago, LayneBruce said:

colleges like to see you explore modern harmony, you don’t have to be atonal but using more non standard chords and progressions will help

One of the other pieces i'm submitting is definitely more out-of-the-box harmony-wise, so hopefully they'll be able to see that I can do both.

10 minutes ago, LayneBruce said:

Also make sure you have a good explanation of why and how you wrote this piece.

Yeah, that's the hard part. But i'm going to work on that today as well!

Thank you so much for your input 🙂 @LayneBruce