<p>Sorry I couldn't resist. There's a potty-mouthed, 5-year-old boy in all of us.</p>
<p>But on to the real issue at stake.</p>
<p>I have already completed/submitted the commonapp and supplement online, choosing not to include an extra essay (shucks). NOW, ffwd a few days, and I wrote a reeeally good one for a different school--one that I reeeeally would like to send to Yale (but unfortanutely, my chances of being able to send it in now are reeeeeally slim).</p>
<p>Do you think there's anyway I could e-mail the Admissions Office and see if I could send the essay via e-mail? Or should I just throw in the towel and hope for the best. I already sent them a collection of my poetry, so maybe an extra essay would be too much? I know they made it clear on the website that too much material could harm a candidate, not help.</p>
<p>If you've made it to this point, I appreciate your putting up with my rambling tendencies. Means a lot.</p>
<p>It depends how big the collection is. What are we talking...like three poems or a Masters dissertation? If the former, I don't think it would hurt too much to send the supplemental essay snail mail. Email might be bothersome to transfer content to your file.</p>
<p>Ehh.. I wouldn't say Masters dissertation, but it is a bound collection of 14[ish]. Some long. Others not.</p>
<p>The only problem is that on my online supplement, I already checked the box that said "I will not be submitting a supplemental essay." and its too late to change that.</p>
<p>Ooooh, that changes it. A whole bound collection?! I'm not sure they'd want to read even more after that...I think you've got enough writing samples now.</p>
<p>Is this essay very different from the other?</p>
<p>Whoa! Similar problem here, except I did send in a supplemental essay that I now feel is worse than one I just wrote for a different school. I didn't send any other supplemental stuff though.</p>
<p>If I send the new one in will they consider it instead of the one I put in the supplement?</p>
<p>yes just tell them you want to revise your application. btw, you can still send essays even if it's after the deadline. My yale rep told me to send an extra essay by the end of January.</p>
<p>It's not just a small revision though. It's an entirely new essay. I'm pretty sure you can't change something that big, because then it's as if you had more time than everyone else.</p>
<p>If I didn't put anything then it would be reasonable to add it, but I don't think it's a good idea now that I've asked other people.</p>
<p>Just say you're replacing the former supplemental essay with this one. Don't sweat it, I did that for EA deferral, sent another in saying the new one expresses me better. But then, I didn't submit poetry...do what you feel most comfortable doing.</p>