<p>Hey you guys!</p>
<p>I know most of you are stressing over ED so bear with me! I’m applying RD for PLME, and I think that a research proposal about this research project I’m working on would give the adcoms a fuller image of my abilities in the medical field, which would be important for PLME. So do you think that if I sent in my proposal, they would look at it at all?</p>
<p>Thanks a bunch, and good luck on your decisions!</p>
<p>.serendipity</p>
<p>I would definitely check with your counselor, but if you added it onto the extra info. part of the Common App, it seems like something really unique and interesting that would show off your skills! Supposedly admissions officers don't like reading too much extra material, but that sounds like something that would really shine. :) Definitely still check with someone else though, and good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks for the quick reply!</p>
<p>Ooh. The problem is, I've JUST submitted my common app. Do you think it would be possible to mail it?</p>
<p>My counsellor would not know anything about this, since I'm a Canadian, from a school that typically does not send too many students to the States.</p>
<p>Hey, I submitted a 40-page bound research paper with my ED application. I don't think they'd mind a proposal at all. I wouldn't send it IF you didn't feel like it contributes to their overall view of you.</p>
<p>But in the context of the PLME pool (scientifically oriented overachievers), anything helps that shows your motivation and more mature perception of the scientific process. Go crazy!!!</p>
<p>hollyert, you realize they probably wont read your 40 page thing right?
lol I remember writing one about 80 pages, but I condensed it to 20 pages :D</p>
<p>I sent in two research papers when I was applying years ago and I know for a fact they were forwarded to chem professors and chem engineering professors because I received an email after I submitted but before being admitted from a chemical engineering professor here asking if I had any questions about the program. He explicitly said that admissions had forwarded my materials to them and he had read them and wanted to direct me towards what kind of research may interest me that was going on at Brown right now.</p>
<p>So yes, they do read them, or send them to someone who can read them.</p>
<p>I know I didn't do research, but I am art student and I sent in quite a bit of supplemental material. I sent in 10 digital photos of artwork, an art resume, two articles that i'm in and have been published related to art/community involvement, and an art evaluation by a professor at the art institute of chicago. </p>
<p>so supplemental material can always be good, just make sure it's relevant to who you are as an applicant.</p>
<p>I didn't expect them to read it, but it was nice to know they'd hold it in their hands; that way they could appreciate all the work I did. And I think they might have read a little of it, especially because it was on education. If they ignored it, at least they saw all those typed pages! Haha</p>
<p>Also a big part of my supplement was about my desire to do further research in the social sciences as an undergrad. I made a big deal of that fact</p>