I did an internship this summer with Hydrogen in Motion. I didn’t publish any of my research, but I feel like the experience is still an important focus of my application. Before I started the internship, I had to sign a non-disclosure agreement. I want to attach my letter of recommendation from the internship as well as an abstract describing what I contributed to the research, but how should I go about it if I can’t disclose confidential information?
You should contact your mentor/supervisor/boss from the internship and ask permission to disclose your research/abstract to Admissions Offices.
Thanks for the reply gibby, I have contacted both my mentor and boss and they said to type up an abstract and send it to them for review so they can remove sensitive information before I submit it.
Also you may want to focus more on the experience itself than on what actual research you did. It’s how the experience affected you and is pertinent to you than what you actually did in the lab - however impressive it may be. Does this dovetail with something you want to do at Yale? Is there a professor at Yale who is doing something similar that you would like to work with? These are the things you should focus on and not just submit an abstract of the experiment itself.
Good idea, Tperry! However, my concern with that advice is that I want to avoid redundancy-- I emphasized the personal impact of the experience in my common app essay. I will definitely research how it ties in with what I want to do at Yale, so thanks for the advice. 