I worked as an editor for two issues of the magazine by my school’s quizzing club. I plan to apply to Yale this November under SCEA. Should I include a PDF copy of one of those two issues as a supplementary material? The issue also contains an article written by me.
P.S. : Most of the material on that issue are not in English. I’d approximate maybe 30% of the articles are.
I would wager that many applicants to Yale have written articles and edited school papers. How would AOs react to getting PDFs of those? How would they react to having 70% of the PDF not in English?
Maybe I’m just cranky, but I think the best you can hope for is that they ignore it. At worst, it will work against you. I think there’s a 0% probability that the magazine will be read by AOs. Mention your work in the activities section.
You asked in another thread about submitting a paper published in a peer-reviewed science journal. Iirc, it was a question asked for a good friend. Even then, you were advised to submit only an abstract.
Good luck.
Bob would win that wager. Your magazine pages aren’t wanted in your application. Leave it out. Good luck.
It would be best to follow Yale’s advice on this: LESS is more: http://admissions.yale.edu/advice-putting-together-your-application#supplementary
I would look at it in another way. You don’t want to come across that you only edited two issues of a local club magazine during all your time there and the one you happened to send also has an article of your own. From a neutral perspective it may seem gratuitous and less than your “passion” but more like something you did to impress colleges. I believe that you would best be served by talking about what you learned or why you loved it so much or why it was such an impacting part of your experience as a student. You will be compared to kids that were sole editor of their school or local paper and some that have articles published and recognized in national publications. Find a way to explain how its your passion over trying to prove it with one article. You have several chances to write your own answers in the application- let your writing and editing skills shine there.
I’d put it this way: you don’t need to submit supplemental material to prove that you did something. There are plenty of places in the application to list the things you did.
Supplemental material is intended to show that you did something extraordinarily well, in a way that listing the activity (and the recognition you received for it) is insufficient to show. That’s why the most common supplement is a recording of musical performance.
Obviously, a magazine you edited is unlikely to make this cut.