<p>Hi, I was wondering how I could send in programming code and website designs as supplemental material (I'm a deferred applicant). I have a website set up where several software and design samples can be downloaded and viewed: can I send an email to admissions with a link to this site, or should I send in a hard copy of the code and research paper for just one of my software applications?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Matt says
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Web sites. Last year, many students left me comments asking about how to submit work on the web. While we will make every effort to view any URL you ask us to, we can make no guarantee that we will be able to visit every web site. Certainly, you should include the URL in the Part 2 of your application; you should also tell us why we should visit the site and what we will find there.
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I generally advise people to send supplements via postal mail whenever possible -- if you send an email, admissions will have to print it out, and with the volume of email they receive every day, I worry that emails will fall through the cracks. So if I were you, I'd send a paper supplement with the website URL, plus a selection of material you'd like them to see if they're not able to go to the site.</p>
<p>Great, thanks for the speedy response!</p>
<p>What would be considered "acceptable" as supplemental material in terms of programming? If I programmed something really simple like Tic Tac Toe or Connect 4, should I bother sending it in?</p>
<p>Well if you think it shows something about you go ahead, but I don't know if they will be all that impressed.</p>
<p>I sent in my IB Comp Sci Internal Assessment which was an expanded Game of Life (cellular automata, not the board game) simulator that also included factors such as age, species, and gender. I sent in the hard code and a .jar of the program on a CD, along with the 60+ pages of documentation IB required for the IA. I wrote my "tell us about something you created" essay on it and at the end told them to look at the CD and also offered a link to where they could download a .zip of everything.</p>
<p>Overall, I would just say make it as easy as possible for adcoms to access information about you.</p>
<p>Yeah, I ended up mailing them a CD with the application and source on it and a hard copy of the research paper as well.</p>
<p>does MIT ever have trouble listening to audio CD's because it's an important part of my app.</p>