<p>Uhh that’s kind of a lot…is it all completely necessary?</p>
<p>I sent a resume because my extracurriculars would have broken the CommonApp activities section format if I included all the necessary information; it can be a good idea.</p>
<p>It’s just–video, research paper, and essay? And resume? There’s approximately 40 admissions staffers going through approximately 40,000 applications, which means they have about a thousand applications to read, each. They are supposed to read everything you send them (except sometimes all of long samples of academic work), but you don’t want them hating you by the end of it.</p>
<p>That said, I’m not a science person. I’ve heard mixed opinions about sending scientific research, but I don’t have an opinion myself about just the research paper. (I do have opinions about research and video and resume and essay.)</p>