<p>Is Columbia friendly toward supplemental materials (like a research abstract)?</p>
<p>I'd say they are VERY friendly to it...but only if it is professional, good, and shows a specific interest that you pursue.</p>
<p>I think my research abstract is what put me over the top in my early acceptance into SEAS...i "beat out" two of my friends from school (used quotations since you do not really compete for acceptance within your own high school)...who have higher scores and possibly better EC's and background...(Both are athletes...one is a biracial (asian and white) starting linebacker on the HS varsity football team that just won the state championship with a 1590 SAT score...he got rejected...the other is an asian varsity golfer at my HS, which is a top-ranked school in the state at golfing, with a 1420...he got deferred...Both of them applied to SEAS by the way...and I'm not an athlete...in fact im a fatass geek)</p>
<p>They did not send in a research abstract, but maybe my research abstract wasn't really the clincher. You can see from my acceptance and their rejection and deferral that admissions is pretty random (in our perspective) about who gets in and who doesn't...but I have a feeling that the research abstract really helped, especially since it was kinda applied science...and i applied to SEAS.</p>