<p>Me sending my admissions rep an additional essay to put in my application file? It's only 150-200 words (it's a new version of my EC Common App Essay). I really feel like I should, because it demonstrates my passion for a particular semi-unique activity that my application as is otherwise does not. I sent in my app about a month ago. Would it be at least acceptable to send this essay in?</p>
<p>Stanford generally won’t include supplementary submissions in an applicant’s file, but if this is important information that wasn’t available at the time of your original submission, you might try contacting your regional admissions representative and asking him or her for advice. Otherwise, I wouldn’t send it, since the admissions web page specifically discourages submissions of materials other than those required to complete the application.</p>
<p>No, they wouldn’t. In some cases (including my own), they actually welcome supplementary submissions.</p>
<p>^They would in fact frown upon a supplementary submission of the type the OP described, which is an updated version of his Common App essay that he wishes he’d submitted originally. That’s one of the reasons application deadlines are enforced–otherwise, many, many students would continue to send in revised versions of their essays as additional ideas occured to them. If something truly significant arose after the application deadline, and thus couldn’t have been included by the deadline, then it is possible that the admissions rep would authorize its submission, as I indicated above. There may possibly be other rare circumstances where admissions would want to see more information based on what the original application contained (or didn’t contain), but that doesn’t sound like the OP’s situation.</p>
<p>Hmm…I see your point zenkoan. I don’t want to bother my admissions rep, but I would feel so much better knowing they have this particular short essay. It really drives home how passionate I am about well, my passion (film), and elaborates upon a unique internship I did to pursue it. I know that passion is Stanford’s bread and butter, and I want them to be able to see how truly passionate I am about film, and how passionately engaged I was with this internship.</p>
<p>PrincetonDreams, do you mind telling me what kind of supplementary submission you sent to them?</p>