<p>If I'm sending in a supplement -- a resume on paper...does it need a cover letter or anything so that they know it belongs to someone applying for ex. the college of arts and sciences for fall 2007? i mean you cant just randomly mail them a resume....right?</p>
<p>how did past applicants do this?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Usually you send in a resume with the actual application. Even though my D used the Common App for the schools which would accept it, she filled it out online and then printed it out and sent it along with any supplement necessary for each school. The activities/honors section on the Common App is so small she couldn't fit everything in, so she wrote "see attached summary" and attached her one-page double-sided resume to that page of the App. I don't know how you would do it otherwise, because I personally don't like an application to look slick or packaged (I also would not call it a resume IMHO). If you have absolutely nothing else to send in and attach it to, maybe you should send it with a cover letter indicating that it is an updated summary of your activities--perhaps drawing attention to something new that wasn't on your original app? If you do that, however, I think you should wait until closer to the deadline so that it really can be as up-to-date as possible and to make sure you aren't forgetting something--the fewer times you send things, the better.</p>
<p>Either mail it in with your application or put on the top that it is a supplement to an application for admission, your complete name, and additional identifying material. </p>
<p>For ID purposes, the school itself may tell you what information to put. Or you can look at the teacher recommendation form and see what is shown there. As I recall, for supplemental material, one school my daughter applied to wanted an address, a second one wanted a birthdate, and a third wanted a social security number. I suppose you could make things easy on yourself and put all three!</p>