<p>does mit accept research papers as supplements?</p>
<p>if so how do i send it?</p>
<p>Yup, they do. Just mail it in to their admissions office.</p>
<p>I sent an abstract though because I figured they wouldn't have the time to read through the whole paper.</p>
<p>From Matt McGann's blog, here:</a>
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Research papers. I think research papers are best talked about in the completely optional essay ("about something that you have created") or in an extra recommendation from your research mentor. It is unlikely that if you submit a complete research paper that we will be able to have it properly evaluated during our process. We'll be most interested in your research experience: how you got interested in the field, how you acquired your research opportunity, your results, what you learned, how this experience influences your future plans, etc.
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So yes, you can send your research paper. But it may be more useful to you to write an essay about your research and how it affected you rather than to submit a paper per se.</p>