<p>Just wondering, since Harvard accepts the ‘Universal College Application’ that does not offer the means necessary to do otherwise (i.e. their forms cannot be completed electronically).</p>
<p>Still, I have a bad feeling about completing and letting forms be completed by hand. Is this bad feeling justified or is it okay to do so if I plan to send in my application via mail and NOT online?</p>
<p>If you can avoid it, you shouldn’t. For instance, could you put the UCAS in MS Paint and type your answers over the boxes of the application? If it is really impossible/not done, though, I’m sure they won’t look unfavorably on it, since all students applying that way will have handwritten applications.</p>
<p>Okay, exultationsy, that’s actually a great idea. Unfortunately, this method is only useful when it comes to the actual application form that I have to fill in. </p>
<p>What about the teacher recommendations? To be honest, I’m asking a favor of them that is time-consuming enough. I don’t want to “force” them to experiment with stupid boxes and MS Paint/Photoshop/whatever. </p>
<p>So, what do you think? Is it better if the recommendations (teacher + counselor) are the only documents? Hmm, I really don’t know how to deal with this…</p>
<p>Oh, heavens, they won’t blame you whatever your teachers/counselors do. I think even part of the CommonApp typically gets handwritten in the teacher section. I’m sure that as long as everything’s legible and you don’t accidentally have any words look like the 17-number code that stands for “automatically reject this applicant and also put him on the terrorism and extraterrestrial aliens watchlist,” you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Actually, if you fill in the information on the UCA website and print-preview it it will offer you a pdf with all the fields neatly filled in that you can print and mail in. So you shouldn’t have to complete anything by hand!</p>