<p>Does the admission officer read the additional information? I attached a document that was 2 pages long (less about 1.5 but you know) and it has awards something very important to my app, so will they read it? I ask because on another thread people were saying that some colleges do not read the additional information, is that true?</p>
<p>Specifically to Yale, I do not know. But comments I heard during the various college visits has been that EVERYTHING is read and therefore, if what you send the college does not have true value, you are probably annoying them by wasting their time. If everything has value, then the addition should benefit your application.</p>
<p>@smoda:</p>
<p>Suppose, uh, Bob’s additional information was a supplementary letter of recommendation from a former term associate professor (for a decade) at Yale, who taught Bob in a course he recently took at Cornell (Bob just handed in his final 40 minutes ago and is worried he formed the present active participle of that one root incorrectly, crapdammit…stupid locative case).</p>
<p>Will Yale’s adcoms consider his recommendation useful enough as a supplementary one? Or will the just say “this doesn’t add anything to the candidates profile, whaateeever”
Might they view Bob as a jerk for taking a class at an ivy and getting a letter of recommendation? Might they think it was his only reason for taking the course?</p>
<p>I mean…you mentioned “true value”…Does this recommendation have true value, or is…Bob…just ****ing off the adcoms? </p>
<p>What are some things with ‘‘true value’’?</p>
<p>I am not an ad com but the rule on additional recommendations is will the person’s recommendation shed different or further light on the qualifications of the applicant. I am guessing that the recommendation is something that you have read (which loses it’s anonymity factor) and therefore you would know if the content is different than what you believe is in your teacher recommendations.</p>
<p>As for being a Cornell professor and once Yale’s, I don’t will consider you a “jerk” or your taking the course “suspect”.</p>
<p>Point is, is the content redundant and is it only being send for the professors name and is he/she telling Yale something that your other to recommendations don’t?</p>
<p>out of curiosity, how many pages of additional information did you all attach? </p>
<p>i submitted three pages–a one-page resume, and two (non-recommendation) scanned letters that put some of my more obscure accomplishments in context (one explained the summer program that i attended, and the other was a personal thank you letter from my Rotary Int’l zone for a service project i completed).</p>
<p>D did one concise resume. ( 1 page total)</p>
<p>Further answer to your question, I would not have been inclined to add your 2nd or 3rd page.</p>
<p>Nope, I haven’t read the recommendation.</p>
<p>I asked him to write it for me though because I’ve basically been awed by the class, and am considering a linguistics major now (the course was an intro class in Sanskrit/Linguistics), so I think he’ll write the letter from that perspective as opposed to what my other teachers probably wrote.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input.</p>
<p>uhhh…i thought i put too much from the start, and i kinda forgot about that until just now (3 days before the decision!). Great. Another thing to worry about.</p>
<p>Mine was 3 pages. 
1/2 page for the college credit id already gotten. and a 2 1/2 pg resume that described each of my most in-depth activities/accomplishments in about 3 or 4 sentences. Errrr, they’ll probably get really annoyed by mine.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it XYZ - I was sort of freaking out about my letter after I read smoda’s response, but it’s not like I can go intercept the truck/plane carrying my mail and prevent it from getting to New Haven.</p>
<p>There’s nothing for us to do but wait. Count yourself lucky - I have to wait several months to see if I did something wrong.</p>
<p>… I didn’t add a resume or anything… is that bad? I only gave in the required materials.</p>
<p>Everything is read at top universities if you can make the initial cut. If a distant glance of your app says that it is competitive, then your stuff will all be read and pondered. (Yale says about 50% or so of their applicants would be decent candidates for a spot - those guys and girls are all getting their stuff read fully. But when Yale is making the hasty decision of “worth considering further / blatantly no” to trim down the pile, some serious skimming and/or skipping over some of the side parts probably happens. </p>
<p>That’s what my GC and a Dean at Vandy have told me - I recognize that they dont know what Yale does, but I am pretty damn sure that a good percentage of the apps just get a brief glance before being chucked. They say all this talk about holistic, personal, thoughtful review and discussion of your app with other officers - We don’t know that they do that, and people in the business (not at Yale, but at subIvies have said things that confirm that at the very least, a huge amount of skimming goes on for a portion of the applicants.</p>
<p>XYZ and Hopeful, </p>
<p>I do agree with the statement “don’t worry about it.”</p>