<p>One of the supplements to the common app gives me the option to submit an graded essay from high school. Does this mean that I have to include the rubric with the teacher's comments on it? Or are they just saying that the essay should have been a graded assignment? Because I have a great research paper that I would like to submit, but I definitely didn't keep that rubric...</p>
<p>With that, what they want is not only the paper itself, but your teacher’s comments and grade-- how did this research paper compare to your teacher’s expectations? A not-so-good paper at a private boarding school may be a great paper at a rural or urban school with little funding, and so the grades/rubrics/comments allow adcoms to see the context of what a ‘good’ paper is and what the teacher expected.</p>
<p>So yes, ‘graded’ would mean finding the rubric or teacher comments.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I just moved, and high school papers were simply not something I saved. Thanks for the help.</p>