<p>· Stanford University
· Harvard College
· Yale University
· Princeton University
· Dartmouth College
· Duke University
· Amherst College
· Williams College
· Brown University
· Northwestern University
· University of Chicago
· Carnegie Mellon University</p>
<p>I think every school will attempt to appear as though they look unfavorably upon additional materials to discourage frivolity but if there is pertinent information it can’t hurt to make it known and most adcom’s will take into account everything you send…this can be a good or bad thing though because acting irresponsibly and sending unnecessary or irrelevant information may cast a bad light on your application</p>
<p>I believe it is necessary, but don’t certain schools forbid it (rather than merely discourage it)?</p>
<p>I don’t think any schools explicitly forbid supplementary materials…Stanford seems the most adamant about not submitting a resume (I wouldn’t…the activities section seems adequate) but if it’s an update of some sort on new awards etc. it should be acceptable…if your midyear report isn’t in you could write something up for your counselor to sign and include with the new transcript etc.</p>
<p>yea stanford’s pretty much stated it would throw away resumes or not read them or something. However, i don’t believe additional updates are out of the picture.</p>
<p>no matter what you send you should have a gc sign it to make it more official and seem less haphazard and dubious…a gc signature can be an indication to the adcom that it is something worth reading that should not be immediately discarded</p>
<p>fitting quote from blog by MIT admissions officer Mike Nance:</p>
<p>“Remember, we’ll read everything that you send us. Don’t abuse this. If I read a letter from your milkman saying that you like strawberry yogurt, I’m gonna be ****ed.”</p>
<p>EDIT: wow i can’t believe CC censors that</p>
<p>· Yale University
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· Dartmouth College
· Duke University
· Amherst College </p>
<p>Well. Go me. I just sent nice pretty (expensive to prepare and mail) supplementary folders to each of them. -_- Man.</p>
<p>I did look on their websites, but I read it more as “Don’t send us carp unless it is significant to your application.”</p>
<p>Are you sure about this?</p>
<p>(I would be pretty sad if they just toss it out without looking, cause those folders are nice and pretty and I could’ve used 'em for my IB essays otherwise then…)</p>
<p>My son provided supplementary material with his Williams application, including a resume, an arts package, creative writing samples etc. I have no idea if they evaluated this material or tossed it in the round file. My guess is that LACs look over everything carefully as long as it is focused and pertinent.</p>
<p>It would be wise to e-mail the admissions offices at the colleges that you’re inquring about instead of asking anonymous, uninformed strangers about whether you should use your precious time to send the supplementary materials .</p>
<p>i would say that if you are applying to HUGE school systems like for example University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Flint or Dearborn or University of Wisconsin-La Cross, Madison, etc. it would be discouraged</p>
<p>Stanford was the only school I didn’t send anything else to. Their app scared me about sending more stuff. The others: sent a resume and additional rec letter.</p>
<p>How about a single poem? That’s all I want to send.</p>
<p>My daughter made it into Brown and Chicago and had quite a bit of supplementary material. (We homeschooled, so this might make a difference.) Chicago even asked my daughter to supplement even more. Also UNC - Chapel Hill accepted her on the basis of the same material, and it is a fairly big school getting lots of apps.</p>
<p>We sent the same to Yale, but she didn’t get in there (of course, no telling why – we prefer to think it was the Brown courses and recs from Brown professors). I don’t recall any specific disallowance in their regs.</p>
<p>From reading web sites and attending info meetings for both my kids, the place that seemed the most adamant about nothing else was the U Cal system. Gee, they don’t even allow recommendations! They have some sort of supplemental, portfolio approach for homeschoolers, but I don’t know of anyone who has successfully gone this route.</p>
<p>Unless a school says “absolutely not, under no circumstances,” I would say send what you want, making sure it improves your application in some way. The worse that can happen is that they don’t look at it.</p>
<p>I think that schools just don’t want to encourage people to supplement, because then they would be more deluged than they are.</p>