A widely cicrulated magazine has published a multipage article about the daughter activities and how she is making a difference.
Q1. Would you include this in your admission profile?
When she showed it to one elite college admission director when ad comm was visitng high school, adcomm asked her many follow up questions through email exchange. Most important she told told the daughter that she is a very strong candidate. Adcomm asked the daughter to visit that college and make an appointment to meet face to face when daughter visits that college.
Q2. Is it a positive developmen? or I am thinking too much.
Q3. Very importnat. Is there any downside in email echanges?
Daughter can not apply ED to the school. We need lots of need based aid and thus can not apply ED.
Daughter has top notch SAT, SAT2, GPA and extracurricular activities and will be above any college 75% admit profile. She has mutiple national level achievements in academic and non academic fields.
I would mention it just briefly.
I’d put it in, maybe mention in add’l info with the publication, article title, date, and an online link.
There is no downside to the interchange your daughter had with the adcom.
This definitely sounds like a positive thing.
I suggest you and your daughter create a PDF formatted version of the article. Many colleges give you the ability to upload and or post supplemental material. Your daughter can ask colleges if she may upload the PDF to the supplement portal. If this option isn’t available, she can ask if they would like her to mail them a hard copy.
Note that some portals are intended only for student created works which is why she should ask first. Also, even if the magazine article is currently accessible via a web link, there is no guarantee that the link will still be live in a few months when her application is being read or reviewed. Many magazines are behind paywalls, or the article could be moved from public access to paywalled archive. So don’t rely on links to web addresses you don’t control.
Also, have hard copies of the article available for your daughter to take to any in-person interviews she has with college reps.
It also sounds like your daughter’s activities are what interested the adcom…maybe not the article.
But even so…things to find out…can she share this with others…ask the author of the article. If it’s copyrighted material…maybe not.
Still having a hard copy with her when she interviews would be a good thing.
You can simply link to the online version. The article reflects the magazine’s interest, not the college’s. It won’t necessarily be a tip. Similar, i believe, to what we’ve said about scholarships. Her app and supp are what’s key. The colleges will take their own look at her choices.
I like the .PDF idea, it is cleaner than a link if colleges allow an upload.
Thanks everyone I will advise daughter. Sorry for my poor English.
My son did something similar for his application. His essay was partly about a music performance he participated in at a school fundraiser where a local news station did a story on the program. My son was featured prominently in the video clips used in the news segment. He sent the video of the news segment to his adcoms. They all loved that he did that. One interviewer said that he wished other kids would submit stuff like that more often. S was admitted to every school to which he applied.