I just found gradcafe and am glad to see so many people in the same boat as I am. I just finished my internships last week and have narrowed down my schools down from a list of 35 to 8. Most of these were eliminated visiting campuses and seeing faculty/alumni shows. My internships were in NYC and I definitely want to be there for graduate school if at all possible. My schools are:
Columbia
Hunter
SVA
Parsons
Yale
Cornell
UT Austin
Queens College
I have visited most of these and have spoken with faculty, current students and former students for all of them. I have my letters of recommendation lined up but I am still slogging through the statement of purpose. As for the question about multiple shots of the same work, I have been told that detail shots are preferable to drawings of work. The photos of your work are the only visual means of representing yourself as an artist while applying and I think the images of actual work might better convey the piece than a drawing would, but that is something that would differ from artist to artist.
Best of luck to everyone. I look forward to seeing what happens in the next few months.