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THUMBING through one portfolio after another can be a frustrating day's work for Melissa Morgan, admissions counselor at the Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia. ''I see so much anime and Pokemon and Grand Theft Auto,'' she says. ''I see one drawing done 20 times.'' To greater or lesser degrees, grades, class rank and SAT/ACT scores count, but admissions judgments for visual arts programs are largely based on a student's portfolio of work. That's true whether the interest is fine arts, fashion, interior or graphic design, architecture or illustration. Yet few students have any idea what they should be submitting when applying. For that matter, neither do guidance counselors and even high school art teachers; many high schools don't even have art classes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]