Can I send a co-authored paper?

[hejduk]

I didn't do a thesis, so I have very few great writing samples to send. My best sample is a paper a friend and I submitted in grad school. Would programs look at me like I'm crazy if I submit this paper? I want to be ethical, and not pretend like I wrote the paper myself.

[Strangefox]

I didn't do a thesis, so I have very few great writing samples to send. My best sample is a paper a friend and I submitted in grad school. Would programs look at me like I'm crazy if I submit this paper? I want to be ethical, and not pretend like I wrote the paper myself.

The best thing is to ask your programs directly. I believe that they do not accept co-authered papers, but I would ask anyway. Who knows, may be some of them do...

[adaptations]

You should ask the specific program, but everything I have heard has said that schools do not accept coauthored papers.

[Henry Hudson]

It seems unlikely, frankly. It could easily be interpreted as mostly our co-author's work, and it would beg the question of whether you can write anything decent on your own.

[eklavya]

I didn't do a thesis, so I have very few great writing samples to send. My best sample is a paper a friend and I submitted in grad school. Would programs look at me like I'm crazy if I submit this paper? I want to be ethical, and not pretend like I wrote the paper myself.

mention it on your resume. and SoP. once invited for interview, take the sample with you to give to the prof directly. prior to interview, your application materials (minus the sample) should suffice to make a good impression.