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<p>That is exactly what I said...</p>
<p>Yeah i was quoting you (kind of). But one of the paper's is very mentored (i.e. been edited and stuff by harvard professor), the other I am sure is high-quality just because I love it, and the other is siemens regional, so I hope it is good, lest SWC sucks.</p>
<p>One last consideration: that's a lot of postage. Will you have anything left for food and clothing while you're at Harvard? :)</p>
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<blockquote> <p>Isn't it better to have more than less?<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>One thing to think about: Adcoms and professors are human beings. They may not WANT to spend their time reading 45 pages. I don't think finding a little mistake is the risk you are taking here. The risk you are taking is that you will annoy whomever it is who has to read all that stuff you send. </p>
<p>More is not necessarily better. Too much "more" may be seen as way over the top. If someone made me read 45 pages of stuff that wasn't needed or asked for, I'd have a pretty low opinion of that person.</p>
<p>Don't make reviewing your a big, painful chore. Just send the abstracts with references to the full papers - so they can look them up if they want to.</p>
<p>"yeah, I think i'm gonna go with "more is better" and send it all."</p>
<p>Haha, I thought the phrase was, "less is more"?</p>
<p>I don't have the papers up anywhere, and i wasn't really comfortable putting them up since they are (mostly) all works-in-progress and as they have not been published, there is no strong protection on them. I called harvard admissions and the guy basically said send everything you want. No one professor would read all the pages, so sending one and sending three papers are essentially equivalent.</p>
<p>Ok ah I'm kind of panicking now...</p>
<p>"If someone made me read 45 pages of stuff that wasn't needed or asked for, I'd have a pretty low opinion of that person.</p>
<p>Don't make reviewing your a big, painful chore. "</p>
<p>Granted, the adcom doesn't read it, he just has to send it out and read the evaluations. But is even this too much to ask from him? Will he be annoyed with me before he reads my app and "think less of me?" ahhhh!</p>
<p>I already sent them out (for overnight delivery), but should I try to remedy this now or not?? AHhhhH!</p>
<p>What's done is done.</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry myself to death over it. If what you sent is impressive and gets a professor interested in you, it definitely won't hurt.</p>
<p>It better. I hope my RSI paper gets sent to harvard medical since everyone in the bioinformatics dept there knows my mentor (its not that big of a dept), and they'll think it's pretty cool stuff.</p>
<p>My other two papers are unreviewed (I just wrote them by myself and no one read them, besides Siemens judges, but they seemed to like them, regional one yaer, semi this year).</p>
<p>Well, there's no saying who they'll get sent to, or who'll like them. </p>
<p>Just cross your fingers, relax, and hope for the best.</p>
<p>hmm what to doooo?</p>
<p>Relax, zogoto. I will be so shocked if you don't get accepted!</p>
<p>Ok so I called the Harvard admissions office today to make sure all my stuff got there. The guy looked at my file and was like "whoa dude you have a lot of stuff in here." When I asked if it would be detrimental to the reading of the file (because I would possibly irk my adcom), he said "I don't know, but I wouldn't really like it..."</p>
<p>Should I send a letter/email saying "Please note that reading these papers is optional"? I have an abstract on the front of each, and someone else I know who is in a similiar situtation called and they said since these materials are optional, they'll just review them as much as they feel like. I REALLY don't want to **** my adcom off....</p>
<p>'Should I send a letter/email saying "Please note that reading these papers is optional"?'</p>
<p>I think this is overstepping your bounds, a bit. They'll assume--it is their job to assume--that you intended for what you sent to be reviewed; else, why send it? Whether they review it all or find it excessive is really out of your hands, now. </p>
<p>(They also already know that it's their prerogative to read your materials; you don't need to articulate this for them.)</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry about it so much.</p>
<p>Nooo the thing is I don't WANT them to have to read it. I want to say "This is only optional Mr. Adcom, please don't read it if you're out of coffee or in a bad mood." You don't want to anger the person reading your harvard application...</p>
<p>If you didn't want them to have to read it then why did you send it in the first place?</p>
<p>I don't know I just thought it would be cool lol. And I thought it was a good idea - they're all really good. What should i do now though?</p>
<p>Nothing. Stop worrying so much.</p>
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<p>There isn't much that you can do at this point. Just wait it out. Either you will get in or you won't. Focus on your school work and don't worry about this.</p>
<p>i wouldnt worry about it. a lotta kids from my high school did that too and got accepted. if your research papers are exceptional thats all that really matters.</p>