<p>I was wondering if I can submit my science fair report as part of the "research work" in the Yale supplemental materials.</p>
<p>It is 17 pages long so should i just send the abstract or the whole shebang?</p>
<p>thanks for the help.</p>
<p>I would send the whole thing, and include a summary, no longer than one page in length.</p>
<p>Hey, I got into Yale through Early Action, and I was puzzled about the very same thing! My science research paper (like yours) was around 17 pages (I’m guessing for Siemens/STS?) as well. Through the traditional science fair competitions (up to ISEF) I did very well, but unfortunately, I did extremely poorly at the Siemens competition. For this reason, i decided to simply report the ISEf award on my resume/CommonApp, and NOT send in the paper. However, I think it IS important to send in something to the admissions committee, simply to give them an idea of what all your hard work and dedication is about, so I decided to send in a research abstract (250 words, the one for ISEF). This was my supplement. </p>
<p>However, if you DO think your research paper is well-written and demonstrative of your ability as a scientist, I strongly recommend you send it in. Do you feel good about your paper? Did you win Siemens/STS/other top fairs with it? If so, send it in! If not, just do what I did 
it worked for me!</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Oh and another thing…If you do send in your whole paper, send it in the format rockermcr suggested, with a short abstract (~200 words or so) at the beginning. If you formatted your paper to fit Siemens or STS guidelines, then you should already be set, since they required an abstract.</p>
<p>Most scientific work requires an abstract. I have co-authored some stuff that was published in scientific magazines, and most of the articles were around ~20 pages. Most admissions officers I’ve spoken to have suggested I submit the full article with a short summary, so they can forward everything to a professor in the field in question if they deem necessary.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you. :)</p>
<p>thanks for your advice guys.
@wasian, I won ISEF with it as well, but not simens. that was a tough comp.
I took both of our advices and submitted the one page abstract since it pretty much covers the whole research paper. </p>
<p>by the way, rocker did you mistype in your first post when you said “I would”?</p>
<p>No… To answer your question, I told you what I would do, and thus what I thought you should do. :)</p>
<p>Do people send in huge english papers too? Just wondering…</p>