<p>I’m supposed to explain my new engineering idea. Is it okay if I add a diagram?</p>
<p>Be careful of your word limit; a picture is worth a thousand words.</p>
<p>@mariambaby3 - I lol’d</p>
<p>Let’s be serious guys…</p>
<p>I also lol’d.</p>
<p>Quite witty.</p>
<p>epic win hahaha</p>
<p>hilarious!!!</p>
<p>omg, just answer the fricken question</p>
<p>^i loled harder</p>
<p>How would you even include a diagram? Would you link to it? Or is there a place to upload additional files? (I applied to colleges 3 years ago so idk if anything has changed since then with the common app.) </p>
<p>If you can find a sensible way to add a diagram, I would go for it. If it helps you explain your idea, why not? Make it look professional, use CAD software or something, it might even impress them.</p>
<p>i declare the “pigs” in my username to be a cc trademark!! >=[[[ arghhhhhh violation violation</p>
<p>im going to comment on the irrelevant comment. that was really funny</p>
<p>If I was on the admissions committee, I would be more impressed if an applicant can successfully describe an engineering process qualitatively and without the use of numbers / equations / diagrams; it’s understood that in most cases this is harder to accomplish. I’d recommend you first try to come up with a words-only explanation and see if you feel comfortable using that for submission (and then throw in a diagram if you don’t). The engineering school stresses the importance of communication (hence the communications course requirements), and I would think that you can use this opportunity to impress them on that front.</p>
<p>I would think that for this particular section of your application, the clarity of your explanation would carry almost as much weight as the actual engineering idea.</p>
<p>Good luck to you.</p>
<p>actually I would be pretty impressed if the applicant was able to make a functional ascii picture. </p>
<p>Don’t you upload a file to the common app? See if it lets you upload one that contains a picture. </p>
<p>The wordlimit point is a good one though, do you really want to risk it? :P</p>