<p>yeah dbate, your anecdote may be telling but maybe not. when i applied to yale, i only sent my abstract in. i also only sent my abstract to princeton, harvard, and stanford and was accepted to those as well. so honestly i think that whether or not you send your abstract or whole paper is not going to make or break your application. </p>
<p>that said, if yale wants the whole paper, then by all means, send in the whole paper…ONLY IF you think it’s really, really, really good. remember the faculty members that will be reading your papers have been published several times in the top scientific journals in the world. so they know the difference between world-class research and…a high school project. </p>
<p>anyway, good luck!</p>