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[skoaner]

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What do you guys think about hyperlinks in essays? A lot of schools have online applications, surely they could follow them. Also, if they print it out and distribute it the reader could just type it in.

 

[Law2Doc]

What do you guys think about hyperlinks in essays? A lot of schools have online applications, surely they could follow them. Also, if they print it out and distribute it the reader could just type it in.

Would you be using this to circumvent the strict word/character limit that most essays have? If so, I think schools would have a problem with it.
At any rate, I've heard from some admission people that med schools are still very low tech and even when a school uses on-line applications, they still print everything out and put paper copies into files for the adcom review. I kind of doubt, given the sheer number of applications they need to plow through, that anyone is going to take your application back to a computer and type in your links. But that's just my take.

 

[JohnB79]

Yeah, make it strait forward no reason to over complicate things. You don't know how much time they have to devote to just your app, so try to fit in what you were going to link to into the essay otherwise you might be up a creek

 

[skoaner]

Would you be using this to circumvent the strict word/character limit that most essays have? If so, I think schools would have a problem with it.

No, I was thinking more to add depth to the story by adding photos of specific things. Also, I was thinking they'd be more useful after the initial screening (say you are granted an interview and the interviewer is actually interested in you).

 

[Law2Doc]

No, I was thinking more to add depth to the story by adding photos of specific things. Also, I was thinking they'd be more useful after the initial screening (say you are granted an interview and the interviewer is actually interested in you).

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think you are imagining that they spend more time preparing for an interview than they actually do. Most of them are already squeezing time to interview you into an already busy professional life.