<p>If you happened to co-author a paper submitted to Nature, and you just managed to get a copy of the draft from your advisor three weeks after the application deadline, would it be worthwhile to send it to the admissions office? I know it's after the deadline and all, but...c'mon, it's a Nature paper...maybe it's worth a shot, especially since Caltech is such a small school..</p>
<p>It would be totally and completely worthwhile. That's really quite an achievement.</p>
<p>Thanks for your response. That's what I ended up doing. Do you know if they're considering applications yet? (I hope I didn't submit the paper too late...)</p>
<p>Was it just submitted to Nature or peer-reviewed and published?</p>
<p>It's almost been submitted, but my advisor is a professor at a top university, and my labmates say the first author is taking his time and making it really good, so I think it'll get in :) Or I hope.</p>
<p>Hey,</p>
<p>So what ended up happening was the paper was rejected from Nature (too technical, my butt), but by some miracle the Science people are now "revising" it (which is pretty much a guarantee of acceptance). I've already been accepted EA to Caltech but I'm hoping for a merit scholarship -- should I tell the admissions office about the paper, or would that seem pretentious seeing as how I'm already in?</p>
<p>Thank you for your consideration :)</p>
<p>Send it</p>
<p>! :)</p>
<p>About merit scholarships, if I got deferred I'm probably not getting one right?</p>
<p>Nobody knows about these things for sure, but I can't think of any cases where somebody got deferred and then got one. Nothing's impossible, but I wouldn't get hopes up.</p>
<p>Hey Ben, while you're here, any info on numbers?</p>
<p>Nope! I'm not even on the inside anymore -- I finished my two years on the committee. They should be up on the website soon though.</p>