Sending additional info to colleges?

Applying to College
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<p>Earlier this month I received an award of sorts - a writing piece of mine will be published in an organization's online literary journal. I'm very excited about it, and I would like for colleges I've applied to to know about it. I received a certificate for it and a letter detailing what will happen with it. My guidance counselor originally said that my high school could fax these papers to the admissions offices of schools that I have yet to hear from, but later she told me that it was my responsibility to send them.</p>

<p>Basically my question is, what is the correct procedure for doing this? I don't want to give the admissions people more papers to deal with, but I feel that something like this could be beneficial to my application.</p>

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<p>This is a personal idea: colleges like subjectivity. This is verified by essays playing an important role on the admission process. Sometimes, then, it’s not about the “size” of the award you’ve, but how it somehow influenced you. At some schools, adcoms are tired to read boring “qualified for AIME”, “national merit finalist” and other fancy statements. Sometimes, they find to be more interesting to read how you worked to get a specific award; what you learned for the future and what perspective did you have of your accomplishment.</p>

<p>It comes down that, IMO, anything that happened since your application submission and that was important to you is worth reporting. The method? Simple e-mail.</p>