<p>No, they don’t. However, there is a box on the Common App Supp to check if you are submitting a paper, so that gives them a data point to cross-check. Haven’t seen any reports here of missing research papers among EA apps, so I asuume they have an effective method of putting two and two together. (They also confirmed via email that individual EA apps were complete by November 9th – that tells me they run a pretty smooth ship over there.)</p>