If you deliver it in person playing on your Flamenco guitar you're all set.

I've seen this on here before. I was then and am now still confused with this app project...what will help that and all of your projects is to print out a physical copy with a gutter at the spine. On a computer it's easy to want to make things full bleed full spread but most will view this in book format - I believe Columbia still requires a physical copy. The images don't need to be full spread and will get destroyed by that spine if they are. If you must have giant images of work that isn't very detailed...which you shouldn't...rotate to a horizontal format of 8.5x11. You may consider horizontal anyway as most of your images are landscape. I actually like the portrait style with two images per page- this doesn't draw attention to the fact that these projects aren't very fleshed out. It's fine that they aren't btw as you're applying to an M.Arch I. You need to cut cut cut the number of images and pages per project. The number of projects is good but there's too many pages. Take only the best photos and scale some things down.

For instance that giant circle elevation that takes up a full spread provides zero details about the project and isn't particularly interesting to look at. The white space in it is quite unnecessary as well. Crop that thing if you must keep it, and pair it with several other images on one page without bleeding images across the spine. Cut the whole thing down to 20 pages. As you continue along in this field you will have to accept that not every image can nor should be shown despite however much time and agony you may have put into it. The portfolio is a curated snapshot not an anthology.

You don't need a chapter guide it's not a novel. Don't waste space on that. Remove the guitar skill it is irrelevant. The resume format is cluttered looking with the horizontal blurbs across the whole spread. Again print this out and view it like a book the way it will be seen. One portrait is too many for the US, two is obnoxious- again if you must include this, choose one.

Way too much filler.

Get rid of the blank & intro pages and trim it down to 10 pages max. Toss that smoke alarm app rip-off project to the very back if you must keep it... and stop writing short stories for all the pages. Do one spread per project,

not one, but two headshots! why the fuck do people do this

No headshots. No "PORTFOLIO" in the largest font possible on your cover.