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<p>You can produce a scrapbook or a CV. Yes, the postal service will accept it. Guaranteed, it will be delivered to the Admissions Office. What will happen from this point forward, you have not clue. However, you do know that your official application will be dissected with a fine tooth comb and that every bit of information will be carefully analyzed. It will be that official package which will be presented to the board. Therefore, my advice is to look at a proposed addenda. Determine what is absolutely necessary to present a more complete ‘picture’ of yourself. Then add it to your admissions package. Only in the very very rare (I can think of only a couple of unique situations) instance, where it will not fit, send an addenda. Also, limit it strictly to additional information. Do not repeat yourself. Then, continue to keep in mind that the reviewer might still consider it redundant, boastful, etc etc and allow it to affect your package negatively. I am sure there is anecdotal instances where extra information was submitted and the candidate was admitted. Did it help?? No one outside the Admissions Office will ever know. Could it be a waste of time? Probably. Could it prove detrimental? Perhaps.</p>
<p>Additional letters of recommendation. Only rarely. And only if the letter can provide unique positive first-hand information that is necessary to present a whole person and the board cannot gain it elsewhere. Casual influential ‘acquaintances’ are a waste of time. A minister who observed your selfless tireless teamwork and hard work on mission trips for three consecutive summers, maybe not.</p>