From looking at senior's portfolios, they all seem to share a few things in common. Most of them only have between 3 and 6 projects in their portfolio and each project is at least 4 pages long. This shows that they go more in depth to show off their work. The hours of research and ideation and drawing and rendering and modeling really comes across when you have more pages to show off all the aspects. The underclassman's portfolios differ widely here as all of their projects are shorter lessons. They didn't spend as much time on each (because of how the curriculum is put together, not by any fault of their own.) so they just don't have the same amount of work behind each project to back them up. This forces them to instead make picture books of their portfolios, showing off the best bits of a lot of different projects in hopes that their talents show through that way. It usually works, but it's not nearly as impressive.
Some other articles from Coroflot and Core77 about portfolios I found helpful. Here's a neat article on Coroflot worth taking a read. This article explains about cover letters. I never really understood why they are needed or used. This last article is basically someone asking simple questions about survey specs.
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