sm176811 wrote:
rhyme wrote:
sm176811 wrote:
Nope... I do not want to send updates! I do not think it is wise to send updates etc...
All I want to send them is some Newspaper clippings to back my essays.
You think it's wrong to notify them about, say, a promotion, but you think attaching newspaper clippings is OK?
I'm baffled.
Well I read Wharton Blog (
https://adcomblog.wharton.upenn.edu/admi ... ions_.html) and they talked about sending in materials after the deadline (like promotions).
However, I think (I might be wrong) it should be okay to send past articles etc before the deadline to be included in your application. Again I think we need to be pragmatic and not send in a whole collection of documents!
Any thoughts?
Let see what others say, but I'd venture that sending in a quick email to inform them of a promotion after the deadline is one thing, including additional material as part of your package is entirely another.
In fact, I'd argue that sending in newspaper clippings is nothing short of irritating. We could all include extra materials - I could throw in copies of articles I wrote, or sample work, or maybe even a DVD of the work I did for the BBC, but why should the adcom take more time to review my materials? Or put differently, what makes me so special?
They tell you what they ask for, and if they wanted anything supplemental, they'd say to go ahead and send it. For instance, Stern pretty much opens this up with their personal expression part, but they are the only school I
know of that does so.
Personally, I wouldn't do it. I mean, look, you can talk about the newspaper articles in your essays (heck you can even quote a few sentences) - will reading them really be that much more helpful in understanding who you are?
Not only will the articles likely talk about what you've already discussed in your essays - making them less interesting, but also --- if they aren't articles about YOU specifically, they'll probably talk more about your team or your company or whatever, in which case, they would say very little about you as a person.
Even if they are articles about you, as an adcom, would I rather read a story written by the applicant about how he ended up in newspapers, or would I like to read something written by SOMEONE ELSE about the applicant?
Personally, I wouldn't send them in if you paid me. But thats just my view.