<p>If the school doesn’t mind, send an abstract. If supplements are discouraged, send it in a resume or just list it under Extracurriculars/Clubs on the app. If it’s a huge part of your son’s application, he can center an essay around it to elaborate (without summarizing the research, of course–the essay should focus on his personal experience).</p>
<p>If there is no special supplement you can place an abstract or shortened version of the overall research in the Additional Info section they give you on the Common App.</p>
<p>However, I personally sent a copy of my research paper and proof of being an Intel Semifinalist to all my top colleges no matter what their policy was.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone!!</p>
<p>(Has the OP gone under covers? Thanks anyway for starting this thread!)</p>
<p>By doing research, do you guys mean doing it at school? intern with a professor’s lab by doing what the professor’s doing? or coming up w/ ur own idea and researching at a lab?</p>
<p>Any or all of the three.</p>
<p>Oh okay thanks.</p>
<p>But for research competitions (intel/siemens), you can’t enter if you simply interned w/ a professor by helping him with his project/idea though right?</p>
<p>haha..i’m sure a lot of people has the exact question..let me just answer what u asked Equilibrium:
yes you can’t. BUT, majority DO start or rather get started through that kind of internship..and THEN, come up with something on your OWN (with some help..but the original topic should be on your own…well, it doesn’t happen all the time..although that should be the case)..i told what is expected..not necessarily what happens…</p>
<p>What about social science research?</p>
<p>As good as scientific research … in fact a lot of hard core math is now being used in social science(i hate to use it like this, i really find no difference at all) … and game theory and its applications in economics are very “hot” areas of research now.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, my high school was too ■■■■■■■■ to even inform me of any opportunity to explore things like this.</p>
<p>If not for the great assistance I did get from them concerning admissions bureaucracy and a bit of scholarship money, I would feel a great compulsion to beat them over the head. (Different people though.)</p>
<p>And to those who have any opportunities to pursue external research in high school: Know that you are damn lucky. Do not squander those opportunities.</p>
<p>I had no opportunities at all my high school. In fact i was the first student in my school to pursue research of any kind, and yes … I so wish that my school offered assistance, help or inspiration of any kind. It would be so much easier. But still the challenges which I had to face, were of great importance to me because they made me what I am. Please do take interest in stuff outsideyou school books, its very important!</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/39501-honest-look-how-intel-finalists-get-there.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/39501-honest-look-how-intel-finalists-get-there.html</a></p>
<p>Does this article mean that students who simply intern with professors can qualify to compete in Siemens/Intel?</p>
<p>If your project entry was the idea/conclusion of your professor, you can’t enter, unless you were a key role (very unlikely) in the project and you helped make conclusions in the project. </p>
<p>For research competitions, the project must be your own conclusion or idea, but it’s okay if you recieve ALOT of help from a mentor. I’m pretty sure i’m correct, but i’m a little new with the research thing so i don’t know.</p>
<p>Well, in that thread, it said that when you contact professors for research, they typically give you a project for you to do and help you a little. Is that true? If it is, can you enter your project, through it’s the professors idea, into competitions?</p>
<p>Yes, he gives you a project, and it’s then your project, not his.</p>
<p>Things like this seem like they are only avaible to a select few. When i was looking for a mentor I did not have connections but emailed ppl to try to study with, the end of it came out to no mentor, so I taught myself like I had been doing for the last few summers. I ended up doing a project on the probability for photons to undergo quantum tunneling and did everything by myself at home. Unfortuanetly it is not of the caliber of Intel stuff, but I did get it published, so it goes to show that if you are persistant and work your butt off (I had been doing studying and doing projects every summer since 7th grade) you can accomplish something despite opportunities.
I mean this as advice for others who do not have the opportunity to do things like this, just work hard by yourself and you can accomplish anything and if you effectively display this in your app I sure you can impress the adcom.</p>
<p>“The probability for photons to undergo quantum tunneling” is NOT Intel caliber?? Really?? Either that’s too fancy a name, or I dunno, what do Intel people do, find new quarks?</p>
<p>I actually have a question for this thread, kind of. It’s going to sound idiotic, but hear me out.</p>
<p>I completed research this summer for Intel STS. My school has a pretty accomplished research program, etc. etc. However, it’s divided into three categories (as I’m sure is common): social science, math, and science. I’m in social science. However, most of the supplements I’ve seen seem to highlight it being SCIENTIFIC research (i.e. Amherst’s). I still attach mine, right? Us social scientists always get shafted…</p>
<p>Don’t laugh at me. It seems like a stupid question, but what if adcoms really only want to see physics projects and not sociology/economics?</p>
<p>That’s not a stupid question at all, bananafish 9. Research in the social sciences is certainly just as valuable–and worth reporting to colleges–as any other type of research.</p>
<p>I have already said about research in social science, probably last page. It’s very valuable. Don’t worry!</p>