<p>On the common app supplements, I have the opportunity to provide a URL as a supplementary material. Since I'm very dedicated to my food blog, and since I consider it one of my major extracurriculars, I was contemplating submitting my website. However, this is Yale's disclaimer: </p>
<p>Supplementary Materials - Websites
Students with a high level of talent that is best conveyed through a website or a YouTube video may submit a URL on Section VI on the Yale Supplement. This is an opportunity to showcase talents or abilities not covered in the categories above; this is not a forum to address the admissions committee directly. Online videos will be judged on substance rather than production value and should be brief. Please dont send blogs, journals, or links to social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace. These will not be considered.</p>
<p>I spend a great deal of time planning and photographing the food that is published on my blog. Nonetheless though, a blog is a blog. I would like SERIOUS opinions on whether or not I should include a URL for not only Yale, but other schools as well (I'm applying to a few top 20 via QuestBridge). Leave you general thoughts below. If it would help your evaluation, PM me, and I'll send a link to my website.</p>
<p>Yes, I read that, and that’s where the paragraph in my first post is excerpted from. The thing is, I don’t really write about personal muses. I mainly publish my photographs and the recipes. Should i just adhere strictly to the fine text then?</p>
<p>Accepted students who submit supplements have extraordinary talents in art, music, dance, theater, architecture, computer science or academics. Does your site contain something extraordinary or demonstrate an unusual talent?</p>
<p>What I would suggest is that rather than submitting the URL as a supplementary material, include it in your description of this extracurricular activity.</p>
<p>That is a good idea Hunt, my only fear is that some of my most popular posts are deep in my archive history. They were the ones I wanted to highlight, and I want to make navigation easy. I got some great advice from gibby though, so I’m trying to decide what my best option is.</p>
<p>I think you either should just link as I suggested, or if your photos are really, really good, you could submit the photos themselves as an arts supplement. Don’t submit recipes or blog posts as a supplement (in my opinion). Of course, if this is something that is important to you, you should write about it in your application.</p>
<p>Thank you for your opinion Hunt! I ended up creating a separate website with just a gallery of selected photos with brief descriptions. I submitted it as a URL supplement.</p>
<p>Do you create the recipes yourself based on trial and error or are you copying down a recipe that you find in a cookbook or Internet?<br>
As a adcom, I would not want to read a blog of steam of consciousness thoughts. You mention a link to a particulcar page of the blog…is this because you feel like you have posted something particularly witty or philosophical or analytical? What is the skill that you Are wanting to show by posting ur blog? If it’s because it takes up a lot of ur time, i argue that TV or video games might take up a lot of my time, but I won’t post a link to my high score on my app.</p>
<p>However, if your recipes are those which you created, or the photographs have some sort of merit, then yes, it might be worth posting as a recipe website with all the unfiltered chatter of a blog removed and some comment how u created these recipes.</p>