<p>Yale CommonApp supplement has an option of submitting optional materials such as Art, Music and science research. Has anyone submitted Science research and art material? What type of science research material should be submitted? I wrote a report on a Biology topic taking internet references earlier this year. Can I submit that? What have you guys submitted?</p>
<p>How is the common app supplement working for you? For me it still says “Not yet available” !!!</p>
<p>Research done in a professional lab is the kind of scientific reserach they mean. Even then, the abstract of the research is sufficient. That being said, not many high school students are doing groundbreaking research and if Yale got abstracts from every kid with an internship they’d be overwhelmed. If you search “supplemental materials” on the Yale forum, you’ll see lots of threads, although they tend to discuss art and music supplements.</p>
<p>^ what if you were a research assistant to a lab project but not necessarily doing your own research
does that count?</p>
<p>I submitted some supplementary materials with my application last year. I submitted the first chapter of my senior thesis (an elective course at my high school that allows us to write a 50+ page thesis) as well as a music supplement with a CD.</p>
<p>wait. How did you get the Yale supplement??</p>
<p>Ok…guys…what does a research actually include? Does it include experimentation with materials? How many pages should it be? I have a report done on genetics which includes little experimental data but includes some statistics taken from the Internet and my class textbooks. Will that work? If not, what amendments should be included? Please answer.</p>
<p>Omega–That doesn’t sound like the type of stuff you’d want to send as supplementary material. It looks like Peytoncline had good results with his/her supplementary materials, but I think that “real” lab research conducted in a professional setting is more what is appropriate. I’ve heard Yale admissions officers saying it’s OK to submit a research abstract. An abstract is not the conference paper or research report itself, but a summary of it. An abstract assumes that you have written a “real” conference paper (yes, high school students really do give papers at adult professional conferences) or research report (co-authoring or taking a smaller role b/c you’re a high schools student is OK).</p>
<p>Look at Yale’s FAQ about supplemental materials. They’re not big fans of getting lots of stuff and only want supplementals if they are outstanding.</p>
<p>@ AdmissionsAddict: Could you explain the research thing further…with some possible examples…I’m getting confused.</p>
<p>@ AdmissionsAddict: Could you explain the research thing further…with some possible examples…I’m getting confused.</p>
<p>Tell me what you’re confused about.</p>
<p>Supplemental materials are GREAT. With my app I sent in my research paper that was 16 pages and it was basically a complete paper like you would sumbit for publication to a journal. The caliber of the work though should be weighed. My research was on quantum tunneling and I evaluated the probability for photons to undergo quantum tunneling, then developed an equation to model the probability. I am sure that it contributed to my acceptance. </p>
<p>To see what a research paper should include just look up the papers published in some scientific journals like Nature, Science, or something that is the format that should be followed. And the format IS important.</p>
<p>Also, I think full reports are better than just abstracts. I don’t know if Admission Addict is right though, in my case it was important to send the entire thing because it was work that I did on my own and not affiliated with a lab.</p>
<p>P.S. It probably does matter how important you were to the actual research, I wrote and did it entirely on my own so it was appropriate.</p>
<p>@ Dbate: Thank you</p>
<p>@ Admissions Addict: Could you give some examples of lab research? What does it actually include? What do you mean by “professional setting”? How should the whole thing be set up?</p>
<p>omega007, </p>
<p>I’m going to take a very short stab at explaining what sort of research paper might be appropriate to include in the supplemental materials:</p>
<p>A paper that was written to (1) describe original science research (2) conducted in a professional setting such as a university researcher’s lab, or a corporate research facility and (3) accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.</p>
<p>I’m just guessing here, but I get the impression that you might be confusing this with a paper written to satisfy a requirement in a high-school class, or something along those lines.</p>
<p>I think memake is correct. You should assume that the admission office will forward the work to the relevant department (art, physics, dance, etc) so that professors can evaluate the supplemental materials. With that in mind, you want to send reasonably impressive work.</p>
<p>Memake describes it well. Another “professional setting” where high school students frequently conduct research is local hospitals, particularly teaching hospitals with research arms, as interns/research assistants. I don’t think the research has to be purely original to the student. Frequently, high school students are assisting adult researchers with Phds or MDs who are the primary authors of any paper submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. That being said, I have seen high school students do truly original research in a professional setting.</p>
<p>Dbate–My comment about the abstract only comes from hearing Yale admissions officers suggesting sending the abstract vs. the entire paper when asked at info sessions about supplemental materials. You may be right that for work that is truly original to the student the entire paper is the way to go.</p>
<p>omega–I looked at your posting history and see that you are an international student. In the US, MANY high school students with an interest in science do internsips at universities, hospitals, and commercial laboratories. In your country, this may not be a normal practice so how to set up such a research opportunity would be different than in the US where it is an accepted practice for high-achieving high school students.</p>
<p>What if you assisted a research group in a hospital but you were not mentioned on the paper.
i didn’ tjust sharpen pencils, i did part of the procedure…
could i write about it in the supplement?</p>
<p>Being an assistant and not being mentioned in the paper should not count as a supplement. You can list it as an internship and perhaps focus an essay on it, but being an assistant is probably insufficient to warrant a supplement especially since you were not mentioned in the paper.</p>
<p>You have to go to the yale website if you want to print out a supplement… its not online.</p>
<p>peachsnapple–I think you PM’d me with the question you posed on this thread. I agree with Dbate’s advice. You might be confuseing the Yale supplement to the Common App with supplementary material. It doesn’t sound like you’r have a piece of supplemental material to send in if you’re name isn’t on the paper.</p>