<p>I was thinking to send an email to colleges for update this week. There are several things that I want to include in the email. </p>
<p>(1) Although it's not required, I will attach my graded essay(more like a test with a great score). I believe it will show how am I doing at school so far, and helps them to evaluate the standard of my high school. </p>
<p>(2) Two Math Awards that I forgot to put onto my activity sheet along with my application. </p>
<p>(2) My school just started a new chapter of an activity few weeks ago. I will tell them that I was sort of a "co-founder" of this activity.</p>
<p>(3) To show my continuning strong interest. </p>
<p>Is the email appropriate or too braggy? Do some of your past experiences suggest such emails are helpful or harmful? </p>
<p>My personal opinion? Don’t send the essay.
The other updates are okay if they’re consequential - if you think they could really be dealbreakers.
The rest of your app should cover your “strong interest”, but if you want to renew it once more, I would just add a closing line to that effect.</p>
<p>Even better, get your GC to send the email on your behalf.</p>
<p>I agree^. It’s important to update with new awards or relevant EC’s, but the essay is a bit too much, and sending the updates speaks for your “continued interest”. </p>
<p>Just email the admissions with the updates and cross your fingers :).</p>
<p>Admissions officers in every college I know of agree on this point: they do not want you to send your essay.</p>
<p>Send the math awards.</p>
<p>I would advise you to skip that “co-founder” thing. Right now, you’re the co-founder of something that hasn’t had time to do anything, and may or may not survive, right?</p>
<p>And I agree that if you’re updating them, they’ll know you’re interested.</p>
<p>No, I wouldn’t recommend it. You don’t want to bother them with something that isn’t really going to make a huge difference on your application. In general, you should only update if it’s something really big, like being an Intel finalist, that would make a definite difference.</p>
<p>I think the answer may depend on the selectivity of the colleges in question. If you’re talking about MIT, then the poster above me is probably right. If you’re talking about someplace where the admissions standards are a little more forgiving, then I’d say tell them.</p>
<p>No. You haven’t actually accomplished anything other than getting past the registration process. Although that can be a monumental achievement depending on how bad the bureaucracy is where you are, it really says nothing about your leadership abilities and adds nothing to your application.</p>
<p>As for the math awards, if they’re dated before you submitted your application, don’t send them. They should have been included with the actual application.</p>
<p>The only things you should update schools on are significant awards or other achievements that have happened since you’ve submitted your application, and even then, you should only update them once.</p>
<p>By no means should you send the essay, either. They don’t want to read a bunch of extra stuff.</p>
<p>@RedSeven: I see your point. This activity that we (teachers and students) proposed is actually way larger than an interest club or a sport. We collaborated with an university, its college students and organizations in some third world countries. Since it involves many parties, we had meetings and negotiations throughout the year. It just came into shape a few weeks ago. </p>
<p>So this activity is definitely not one of those “Oh, sign this sheet and you’ll be the president of this club!!” thing. It takes time, and a “nod” from the university to get this going. </p>
<p>But you are right. The activity is so huge that mainly teachers were in charge, not students. So my “leadership” part may not be apparent. </p>