<p>Is this only for "real" research, like something that produced literature? I did two internships at Columbia associated labs and was wondering where to write about it.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what “real research” refers to, but for some schools, you can attach your research abstract or the even the research paper itself with the application. Or, if it is a summer internship activity, you can elaborate on it in the additional info section of the common app, or it can be a part of your response to the activity short answer question, etc. A research activity doesn’t have to produce any published paper to be significant:)</p>
<p>Well, the problem is that I didn’t produce a paper. My mentor definitely will soon (bk virus) but I was basically a lab assistant. I did do some significant work, so can I put a summary of my work as a science supplement. Or does it need to be an abstract/paper and I should save it for additional info? Just asking coz they stress that supplements are for exceptionally advanced work, which I’m not sure my internships qualify as.</p>
<p>^If the school uses common app, you can always write out a brief summary of your work and attach it to the additional info section. Usually when you submit a research supplement, or any type of supplement for that matter, it gets sent to an academic department for review, so your admission officer, instead of reading your supplement, will only get, say, perhaps a rating of your work. So I would save it for additional info.</p>
<p>Hope that helped.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot. If it’s going straight to the department, I don’t think they’ll be all that impressed. In that case, would it be better to just skip writing something since my mentor is writing me a rec which will probably cover everything I could say and a lot more.</p>