Worth it to submit supplementary material? (Transferring)

Hi all!

There is this academic paper I would really like to submit to aid my application. I have done incredibly well on this paper (I am in my first year in college- it is on the topic of bioethics and provides a critique on a certain practice in modern day society), and I feel it would benefit my application.

However, I have also seen some people on CC say supplementary material can hurt my application more than help. Do you all have any thoughts?

I contacted the university and they told me I am allowed to submit this academic paper (but should shorten it to 500 words). Do you all have any suggestions on how I should shorten it (i.e. just cut it off at exactly the 500 word maximum etc)?

Thank you!

You would have to totally rewrite it to the new word limit. Probably not worth the effort.