Sooo its that time of the year when portfolio work is in full swing with most of the 2014 applicants I'm sure, hope it's coming along fine with everybody :)

I've been wondering how exactly schools view portfolios. Most advice is along the lines of 'design it as a spread', - but there's also the rumor floating around that they view it as single pages scrolling down, probably even on acrobat, so I'm a little confused as to how to approach that. I'm currently working on mine as a spread and am worried that each page if viewed individually may seem disjointed. From what I know, once you upload it to slideroom there's no way of seeing a preview. 

Also, different places have different directions here. The GSD for instance suggests a portfolio size of A3 or 12X18. They also explicitly state that it would be viewed one page at a time, and if we want to maintain the spread we would need to upload each spread as a single page in the PDF. My current one is 8X11 single page in portrait format - which comes to 11X16 when uploaded as a spread. So in such a case would each 8X11 sheet count as one page, or would the 11X16 count as a page?