<p>If you did the optional statement on research for the supplement, how long was it?</p>
<p>I uploaded 2 of my abstracts into that space. It took up approximately 2 pages.</p>
<p>Same here. I uploaded one on the area specified and then added the other one in the space on the common app where they ask you to add any supplemental material</p>
<p>i did 3 summers of lab work during high school, but my work was part of an ongoing project so I didn't have a paper to submit for my app. In lew of a paper, I submitted a short description (basically an abstract) of the goals of the study and my role in it.</p>
<p>Mine came to around a page... I just wrote about what I did, why I chose to take up that particular research and what the results of the research really meant!</p>
<p>@crzy2rite</p>
<p>The common app said that you can enter info in one or the other, but it wouldn't submit both. I'd be worried.</p>
<p>Anyway, I made a historical documentary outside of school (lots of primary sources and in-person interviews) so I pretty much wrote an abstract just for the application; it turned out to be a little less than a page and a half double-spaced. My rule is that nothing in the application that you type yourself should be longer than your main essay.</p>