<p>I did substantial medical research this summer and I am hoping to send my abstract to all (14) of my schools. I also have an activities/work/honors/etc. resume that I see as essential to my application because I simply cannot fit everything in the 10 allotted spaces on the common app.</p>
<p>However, on the common app there is no space for me to attach ANYTHING. Both of these pieces are absolutely necessary in my opinion.</p>
<p>What do I do? Do I send them individually via mail or email? I feel like that would come across as obnoxious.</p>
<p>Our D is in a similar situation. She’ll end up with two different app versions depending on the school. First she pared down her activities/awards but still had to describe four of them in the Additional Section for all her schools using a couple short sentences each. She then contacted her admissions counselors directly at her top few schools and two of them have agreed to accept a pdf of her abstract by email. For all the other schools, she has included key excerpts from the abstract in the Additional Info section.</p>
<p>@niceday, is having different app versions for different schools possible? All my schools but one are on the common app, I didn’t realize you could send different versions.</p>
<p>You are allowed to edit the common app between submissions without limits other than the essay. The essay can be submitted with a total of three versions and on the third version it is locked and can’t be changed further.</p>
<p>I would suggest to put the title of abstract in the additional information in scientific citation format. If it is for a meeting or for a journal, put that down as “submitted to xxx” or “presented at xxx meeting 2013”.</p>