<p>As a supplement, should I send in my research report or my research abstract? Will Harvard have time look at my paper if I submit it? (eg. Yale reads the research papers but MIT says they may not).
also if my mentor is writing a rec for me, should he/she use the common app teacher rec form ? </p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>I think it's quite a hard decision. I read on a college website (either Yale or Harvard, can't remember for sure), that in the past, full papers were proved to have a more significant impact. It depends on how long it is. Are your research skills significantly better-shown in your full paper than in your abstract? Is it worth submitting a much longer paper that could possibly be overlooked? You decide :)</p>
<p>And as for the rec, I'm sorry, I can't answer</p>
<p>Your mentor doesn't need to use the teacher rec. form. Just writing letter on his/her letterhead will be fine. </p>
<p>I can't advise on the research paper, except to say if you send the whole thing they can just read the abstract if that's all they want to read. If you only send the abstract, it's a lot harder to read the whole paper. So I don't see a downside to sending the whole paper, unless they specifically tell you not to.</p>
<p>bump... bump...</p>
<p>I agree with mathmom and recommend sending the full paper.</p>
<p>Oh my goodness.
You have to write a research paper for Harvard??</p>
<p>No. Its an optional part of the Harvard supplement. There is no requirement of doing research.</p>
<p>How much of an advantage does it give you if you do it?</p>
<p>how about if your research is in surgical medicine... obviously i had data but that is based on patients and their situations... which is private... obviously i have an abstract... but i dont do "regular" research that is open to different universities...</p>
<p>^ Ambitiousteen I am in the same boat as you. You have to talk to your mentor about IRB / SRC approval (I'm sure there is an equivalent in Canada).</p>
<p>EDIT: It's because as you said the results of the human subjects are confidential.</p>
<p>Smile614, you're absolutely not expected to write a research paper for the sake of adding to your application.</p>
<p>Students that do advanced science/math/etc research in high school are welcomed to add a paper they have written as a supplement, which would sometimes be evaluated by a professor in the field (similarly to a student with extraordinary musical talent sending in a supplement recording).</p>
<p>Don't feel bad at all if you don't have a supplement- almost all students don't!</p>
<p>yeah I didn't submit a research paper to MIT, but I'm still deciding about sending it/ an abstract to HYP...I already had my preceptor submit a recommendation</p>
<p>hmmm...i'm not sure about harvard, but i know that the yale admissions lady who came to our school was very big on sending in a research paper supplement</p>
<p>i'm going to think that if you are sending a rec from ur mentor, it would be nice for you to send the whole paper :)</p>
<p>(and lmao could u imagine what our lives would be like if we were required to conduct comprehensive research for top tier schools?!?!)</p>
<p>I sent mine to MIT, Caltech, and Uchicago, but it was in poster format, with everything on one page as if it were going to be presented to ppl at a conference. is that ok? I even blew it up a little more so it can be readable.
Also, I did this research with a MIT professor over the summer and co-authored a paper with him, but if it is going to be evaluated by professors in each one of those schools, i'm not sure if they would understand it or not since it focuses only on animal acoustics, unlike on major science topics like physics, cell bio, etc.</p>
<p>For the Harvard application, I read you should include a short statement about how your research report fits in with your academics. Does anyone have any advice about this? How long should it be? Who sees it?</p>
<p>For mine, I just put a short statement putting the research in perspective of my future career goals. I am just sending in an abstract though.</p>
<p>i put my major down as biological sciences but would it be ok to send a research paper about something else I would like to study? (Middle Eastern Studies)</p>
<p>I also already submitted my app, so is it too late to send it anyway?</p>
<p>bump..............</p>
<p>^^No it is not too late, you send in supplementary materials seperate from the rest of the app. There are specific guidelines for research abstracts, so go to Harvard admissions website to find out.</p>
<p>thanks, but it doesn't say on the website whether i should send a research paper if it doesn't pertain to the major i selected on the application....so should i or should i not?</p>