Independent Research Papers - Yale Supplementary Materials

[ivymatt]

<p>Think it’s too late to ask him since I turned in my apps for jan 1? Also, I already have a rev letter from one mentor so should I get the seconds rec?</p>

[4beardolls]

<p>I though Yale only allows ONE additional LOR outside of the two teacher LOR’s.</p>

[ivymatt]

<p>They have 2 teacher recs on common app and none for additional. I believe it’s 1 additional rec now that I think about it. Any ideas if I Gould send my research proposal though?</p>

[mathjj]

<p>@ivymatt
Only you can decide if it’s good enough or not.</p>

[Happyppah]

<p>can I email the additional LOR and the research paper, or do I have to mail them in?</p>

[boomboom123]

@gibby Does extra writing counts as supplementary materials, for example for Yale essay, it asks for you to tell more about yourself.- so I wrote about this experience of mine. And I am applying to both Yale and Penn. Can I submit the Yale essay for Penn as well, would it count as extra literary writing and be compared to other writers?

My essays are very good, but definitely not national level - prob provincial level. It is not a literary piece, but rather just another essay that I used for college admissions. Should I submit my Yale supplement as extra material to Penn?

[boomboom123]

@gibby I am referring to Upenn - college of arts and sciences (ivy league) not penn state since well I don’t live in Penn and there is no point for me to apply to penn state when i can apply to my own state uni.

[gibby]

My advice here on the Yale forum is the same as it was on the Harvard forum, and for that matter UPenn.

At this late date in the process, Admissions has internally gone through all the candidates and have accepted as many students as they need. In the next day or so, those accepted student files are being sent to the financial aid office, so that financial aid officers can calculate the need-based aid on every student that applied for it. If – and it’s a big if – a wonderful update or supplement came in at the last moment, Admissions would need to cut other students from their ACCEPTED pile, as they don’t want to chance accepting too many students and not having enough beds if more kids than estimated chose to matriculate. So, IMHO, the absolute best thing an applicant could hope for was that their supplement sent in at the last minute would make a sufficient enough impression that Admissions would take the applicant off the REJECT pile, and put them into the WAITLIST pile. That’s how late in the process it is to send in updates or supplements.

[incredibleParent]

I’m not sure if this belongs right here, but does Yale take non-STEM academic papers (e.g. humanities research)?

[gibby]

Yale “takes” whatever a student sends them. However, would it be wise for an applicant to send Admissions a non-Stem academic paper? That’s really the more pertinent question. IMHO, probably not. Unless the academic paper has been published in a nationally recognized magazine (and I imagine that happens rarely), remember “less is more” and applicants should be careful not to clutter their file with potential distractions giving an AO’s the opportunity for an “eye roll.” An applicant might be best served to have their Humanities teacher write their recommendation, whereby the teacher makes mention of the research paper in their letter. Then, if Admissions wants to read the research paper, they will email the applicant and ask them for it.