<p>So I did research and I want to submit my paper to supplement my application. I am not sure if Harvard accepts full papers or only abstracts, I tried looking on their website but it does not address my specific question. So did any of you submit supplementary research? And if you did, did you send the whole paper or only the abstract? </p>
<p>And if you have a link from the website that addresses this could you provide it?</p>
<p>Last year my D submitted her abstracts and a reduced poster of one of her research presentations.(where text was still adequately legible and which was folded into 8 1/2" x 11''). She did not submit the actual papers, which were near 30 pgs long each.
She sent the material by mail.</p>
<p>^^30 pages!!! I thought the usually limit for a science paper was 20, mine is only 16 pages long. Yale states explictly that they will read the paper, but Harvard does not. Also was your daughter accepted?</p>
<p>Universities that do accept research papers usually forward them to be read by the appropriate department. The department then advises the adcom, with their input. I know of two schools that proceed this way, Caltech and Pomona...maybe Yale does this too.
My daughter was waitlisted all the way till July. At that point H inquired about her interest a couple of times, but she'd already decided on another school. Besides, she probably would have been put on the Z list (if ultimately given a spot), as some others were a that point (deferred matriculation for 2013) and she wouldn't have wanted a gap year.
Anyway, good luck to you!</p>