Can I send extra essay to MIT?

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<p>I already wrote the essay about
"Tell us about the most significant challenge you've faced or something important that didn't go according to plan. How did you manage the situation"</p>

<p>But I am tranfer and I found that the topics of our essays are different from the freshmen topics. </p>

<p>So, Can the admissions read one more essay, or may be they will think that I am annoying?</p>

<p>Please help, I really think this essay will boost my chance</p>

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<p>Again, Can I send extra essay to MIT?</p>

<p>Please help,</p>

[molliebatmit]

<p>Freshman applicants are allowed to send any supplemental material they wish, but the rules are sometimes different for transfer applicants.</p>

<p>If it were me, I would send the essay. It can’t do anything to hurt your application – the worst that would happen is that it’s not allowed and they won’t read it.</p>

[nk9230]

<p>with supplemental material, my IB coordinator said we could send out our extended essays. Now I dont think admissions would be thrilled in receiving a 4,000 word paper, but could I submit the abstract? My extended essay is in English, and I think it would show more well rounded-ness, as well as insight into what I choose to do to fufill a core requirement for IB that is not graded at my school (we dont receive a class grade for the Extended Essay, only TOK).</p>

[molliebatmit]

<p>Yes, you could submit the abstract or the essay if you feel it helps make a case for your admission.</p>

<p>From my FAQ, stickied at the top of the page:

I want to submit supplemental material, but I don’t want the admissions officers to think I’m annoying. Should I send it or not?
I don’t think fear of being “annoying” should be a factor at all in your decision to submit or not to submit supplemental materials. The people reading your application are professional admissions officers, and their job is to read the application that you craft and submit. They do not get annoyed when you follow their stated policy of allowing any supplemental materials that you’d like to send – if it were a problem, they’d place a limit on the amount of supplemental material accepted.</p>

<p>I think it should be totally up to you as the applicant: do you think these additional materials will provide a better picture of who you are as a person? If they’re redundant, I don’t think they should be sent – not because the admissions officers would be angry or annoyed, because they won’t be, but because it’s not helpful to keep repeating the same points in the application.</p>

<p>Scientists have a term called “grantsmanship” – the skills that you need to craft a strong, pithy, on-point, fundable grant application. I think that undergraduate applicants need to have a dose of grantsmanship themselves to make an application that highlights their strengths and makes a strong argument for admission. Remember that the admissions officers have never met you, and they’re relying only on your application to get a sense of who you are and why you should be admitted to MIT. If your extra material helps make that case, then send it. If it doesn’t, then don’t.

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<p>Molliebatmit,
Thank you very much</p>