<p>So I recently had an interview with a Yale alumni...while talking about supplementary materials, he encouraged me to send in an essay that I did for my AP Language and Composition class last year on looking at artworks from a psychological perspective..he said that it is never too late to keep updating the admissions office with information that would help better illustrate who I am as a person...</p>
<p>My question is, should I send in that essay? It is a research paper, so quite long...all this time, I thought schools did not prefer supplementary materials....</p>
<p>Schools want as complete a picture of you as they can have......given certain time constraints.</p>
<p>If the essay adds something important to you.....that doesn't require more effort to assimilate than the information you provided at the length of material you originally submitted, SEND IT.</p>
<p>Other wise, I wouldn't.</p>
<p>So basically, you're given a balancing act between brevity/importance of information.</p>
<p>Yale is kind of ( I feel ) dropping hints to err on the side of brevity (Remember those 25 word statements?).</p>
<p>Many interviewers are well-intentioned but don't know much about the current admissions scene. Don't send the paper in. Read the FAQs on the admissions webpage. Yale discourages supplemental materials. In any event, your paper is certainly not the type of supplemental material I would recommend sending in.</p>
<p>AdmAddict, while you're here......</p>
<p>I sent in a recommendation from a linguistics prof....He only knew me as far as my abilities/personality in that class went, and he said he would be keeping the letter brief.</p>
<p>I felt his perspective was something my highschool teachers/counselor didn't provide.
(He was also a prof at Yale)</p>
<p>Bad idea?...You can be honest.</p>
<p>Sounds like a good supplemental rec.</p>