<p>Do we attach research papers to the additional information section of the common application or do we have to mail them in to the yale admissions office?</p>
<p>Question for you: do you think yale admissions officers *want or have the time * to read research papers from potentially 30000 applicants?</p>
<p>If not, then you should attach a one-page summation. that’s all. </p>
<p>Remember the adage: the thicker the file, the thicker the kid.</p>
<p>How can faculty members properly review my work if all they’re given is merely a summation of all my work? I’m submitting my philosophy papers and I can easily say what I did in the papers in less than a page, but I feel as though it’s nearly impossible to evaluate my papers without knowing the arguments (in their complete form) I used to reach my conclusions and all the small, though intriguing and meaningful, points that are found in my papers. Ugh…I don’t know what I’m going to do >_>. Decisions, decisions, decisions…</p>
<p>They want the whole thing…[Supplementary</a> Materials | Application to Yale College | Freshmen | Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/supplementary.html]Supplementary”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/supplementary.html)</p>
<p>Yes I sent in my whole 16 page paper last year and it worked out well for me. On the common app supplement for Yale it asks if you are sending supplemental materials and you check that box, later you then send the work to the admission office in a separate packet and they then pair it with your application.</p>
<p>I’m attaching mine to the additional info section of the common app.</p>
<p>If you do send it, don’t attach it to the additional info section. It’s a supplement – not a part of your application.</p>
<p>Straight from Yale’s website:</p>
<p>All supplementary academic work and recommendations should be attached to the Common Application as Additional Information or mailed to the admissions office</p>
<p>Oh, my bad then. Art supplements are always funky, so I got the two mixed up.</p>
<p>“OR mailed to the admissions office.” I would recommend doing that</p>
<p>I spoke directly to an admissions officer, and he said that you should send it to the admissions ofice, and they will distribute it to an appropriate department for it to be reviewed.</p>
<p>I sent mine through the mail, but now I’m afraid that it’ll negatively affect my chances. Yale pretty much says “Don’t send us anything extra unless you think we’ll think it’s amazing. Which we probably won’t.”</p>
<p>I sent in mine. All 20+ pages, with pretty pictures too! I wouldn’t be surprised if they submit me to their graduate program after reading mine. 
By “they,” I mean professors, not the admission officers. I wrote a cliff notes version of my paper for the admission officers.</p>
<p>@Grouptheory, how long was yours, exactly? Mine was 70 pages with pictures/charts. Like 40 pages of actual writing. I feel like it might have been too long, and now I feel like I should have made a cliffnotes version.</p>
<p>70 is way too long. I won’t bother to count, but it was less than 35. My “cliff notes version” was just my abstract with all the technical terms replaced. Then I wrote a bit more about the significance of my work. It’s not too late to make one and send it by mail.</p>
<p>It’s 70 for 3 years of research though. I don’t think they’ll read all of it, but I didn’t want to sit through and cut out 50 pages. I am defintely concerned that it is too long. Too late now, so I guess we’ll see what happens.</p>
<p>I saw that you were also a surgical intern? Me too :)</p>
<p>I sent in my 18 page research paper and abstract, but forgot the check the box on my application that indicates whether I would be submitting a research supplement:( Oh well, there’s nothing I can do about it now.</p>
<p>Wow, Anonymous, surgical internship sounds really cool:)</p>
<p>@xrCalico23, you can still call them, though I imagine that by the time their office opens, they’ll have already realized that you submitted a paper. So…</p>
<p>And yeah, it was really cool. I realized that surgeons are not nice people though. Like, they are very smart and all but they are pretty much all business.</p>
<p>OP, what was your research on? Somebody told me that Yales/top schools didn’t really like philosophy papers because they were usually too simplistic or repeating something that had already been done.</p>
<p>^so they will not even check to see that they aren’t? Because I can verily assure you that mine is not simplistic whatsoever and is most assuredly not repeating something that has already been done and I would hate for my papers to simply be thrown out.</p>