<p>Should these be sent by mail or email? Or does it not matter?</p>
<p>Does Harvard state that it would like to see your entire paper? Because I highly doubt any admissions officer (save for those at CalTech) would have the time to peruse through a 20-some page report unless it entails a ground-breaking, do-it-yourself cryogenics kit you've developed that costs only $5 a pop and has already become the foundation for a successful business. (Or, in the case of math, proved that 0=1.) At that point, they'd just be reading it out of interest, sitting next to your application folder, which will already have a big, green "ADMIT" stamped on the front.</p>
<p>I just put my abstract in the additional info section of all my (online) applications. No school said that this should be done, but no school said anything about not doing this either, so I saw no harm in it. Don't think it turned out (or will turn out) to be harmful in any case.</p>
<p>In the supplement, they say that if you have any additional materials that are highly advanced (they state research as an example), you are welcomed to send it with your application.</p>
<p>You can send in your entire paper. There are volunteer professors in each department who receive these papers, look over them and offer their feedback so the adcoms don't necessarily read the paper themselves. Of course this can weigh either positively, negatively or have no weight on your application if the paper isn't truly outstanding. It can offer more insight into your writing skills though overall.</p>
<p>Ya, but should I email it or mail it on paper?</p>
<p>send or mail a research abstract (100-200 words).</p>
<p>I'd mail it if I were you...since they don't provide an email to send specific research papers so it may be overlooked if you send it to like <a href="mailto:admissions@harvard.edu">admissions@harvard.edu</a><a href="or%20whatever%20their%20actual%20email%20is">/email</a></p>
<p>i actually sent in the whole paper...even if they dont read the whole thing (which they probably didnt..its 20 pages long) they would have read the abstract and seen the breadth and significant research that you did that resulted in 20 pages. so send it in..its not going to hurt</p>
<p>Yeah just mail it to ensure there is an actual copy for someone to review.</p>
<p>i just sent in an abstract, no one wants to spend extra time reading an entire paper.</p>
<p>can I see one of you guy's research papers? I haven't thought of sending one, and I'd like to see the quality of your papers comparable to mine, so I can decide whether I should even consider sending one myself. :)</p>