<p>From my sister: “Well, you see, they got bored of reading the applications, so they just stick them on the wall now and throw darts at them. The one’s that they hit are the one’s that get in. So, if you get more pretty colors on your application, they are more likely to hit it, then you win!” (Note, this is the theatre major who sews costumes and obsesses about colors)</p>
<p>Sweet! I’ll print my application on yellow paper and make it really big. They won’t be able to miss it!</p>
<p>LOL. W T F? I don’t think so. Though, it sometimes seems that way. I think they look at the individuals (the ones that stand out some how, little or big) and review them while they take the others and throw darts because you can’t differentiate between them :-P. Just my theory, though.</p>
<p>I will come clean on something though… my g.c. sent in a list of my Activities/Interests with my transcript and it was done in orange and black (by yours truly). It actually looked pretty good, not too overdone. Not to worry, no glitter or scented paper. It WILL stick out on that wall though!</p>
<p>I was gonna print my application on orange paper… to go with the whole orange and black thing, and I thought it would show how creative I am…and mail it</p>
<p>however, someone on CC said this year that they were doing the same thing so I scratched my plan and just submitted it online.</p>
<p>I sent my application electronically but I would not have printed my application on orange paper had I mailed it because that document is more serious and should be professional. My list of Interests and Activities – that’s a different story! I didn’t print it on orange paper, merely used orange ink to highlight my activities. I made absolutely certain it was ‘easy on the eyes’.</p>
<p>i used to have a teacher that said he marked our assignmentss like so</p>
<p>he’d go to the top of a staircase, and throw all our essays, and the furthest one got the highest mark</p>
<p>(in other words, whichever was the thickest)</p>
<p>princeton might work that way…</p>
<p>^ the heaviest ones wouldnt necessarily fall the farthest… gravity acts independent of the force of weight</p>
<p>^ since they are papers, air resistance will be a factor, so most likely the heavier one will reach first.</p>
<p>he was referring to the paper’s thickness not weight. thick paper is less likely to deform from its original, plain-like shape which would allow it to cut through the air the farthest. (LOL)</p>
<p>Thick paper would inherently be heavier so both your point and my point stand :p</p>
<p>This thread is SO useless…</p>
<p>lmao! What a joke.</p>
<p>It’s good that no one in the history of college apps has thought of colors or thick paper. They’ll be completely blown away by your originality and wit that you’ll have to be accepted. After all, you’re the first to try it, it won’t be hackneyed and generally pathetic becuase it’ll be the first the adcoms have ever seen of its kind.</p>
<p>lol, :)</p>
<p>It’s sad when you think you’ll have a better chance with the “dart-method” than them actually reading your application… :)</p>