<p>I had already sent my resume and some of my project research papers to Harvard admission. All of my supplemental materials are truly correct and contain only truths. They will receive almost 100 pages. My resume is about 8 pages long. Today, unfortunately I found that I wrote one of my international contest wrongly(not grammatically), and by this the name of the contest which I wrote in my CV doesn’t even exist on Google.
Some parts of that international contest name, the city and the country where the contest was held doesn’t contain any mistake.
Also the initial of the contest are correctly. </p>
<p>Should I send them an email to inform that I wrote wrongly one of my contest from my CV? If your answer is yes, would they look with skepticism at this/to my entire application? </p>
<p>Also I haven’t finish my common application yet.</p>
<p>Admissions Directors, on average, have about 15 minutes to review each application file. That’s just barely enough time to read your teacher recommendations, guidance counselor report, essays and to look through your transcript and list of EC’s. They are not going to have time to closely look through 100 pages of supplemental materials, nor an 8-page resume. So, chances are your error with the contest-name will not be noticed. And as you did win the contest, but got the name wrong, it’s not an error of misrepresentation. I would just let it go.</p>
<p>I believe you were advised earlier to only submit abstracts of your research papers. I think it may be detrimental to your application. If H does not accept you and you apply to other colleges. DO NOT submit 100 pages. That is not what is expected of applicants and frankly, makes you look rather desperate.</p>
<p>Also, edit your 8 page resume to two pages maximum for subsequent college applications.</p>
<p>People at my high school said that having a longer-than-one-page resume, as a high schooler, was needless and would get me rejected. How could I possibly have more than a page? Largely because my extracurriculars produced a lot of things that were hard to format, my first draft of my resume was 8-10 pages long. So I cut it down to a still-hefty-but-compact 2. Eight pages is very bad. Sending that update will be more so. </p>
<p>If you attached research, Harvard won’t–or shouldn’t–read it. Adcoms are not scholars in your field and will not know how to evaluate it. If your work is aces, good enough to get you admitted, it should be good enough to have won a prize that’ll speak for you and let you not submit anything but the abstract. If it hasn’t won a prize, having the adcoms read it will not help you.</p>
<p>I’m struggling to even understand how you reached 100 pages of material. Let’s say you worked in two different labs over the summer and produced by yourself 30 page research papers in each. That’s a stretch, but OK. Then you wrote an 8 page resume, which, why. What the heck were the other 30 pages?</p>
<p>Recently, I told somebody who was freaking out about attaching a one-page resume that the “the thicker the file, the thicker the applicant” adage didn’t apply to them.</p>
<p>To you? Yes. It does. If there is a way to cut about 95 pages out of your supplemental materials before you submit your application, you should do that. Regardless, submit about 95 pages less material to your RD schools.</p>
<p>HC, I told you that I could also have and did fill 8 pages of resume with things I’d done. You did, too. That was my first draft, though. Having your final draft stay eight pages tells the adcoms that you have no idea how to edit for what’s most important. I skimmed through your resume much faster than I would have if it were shorter because I couldn’t tell what was important and what wasn’t. Self-editing to include only the 2 pages of your strongest achievements, less if you can swing it, would make your resume much stronger than this laundry list.</p>