Online vs. Paper Applications?

theredsmileyface
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:25:56 +0000

If your rational is like mine: well, I’m a little OCD, so I thought I HAD to do paper just so I could check and recheck everything a million times and then make sure that everything got there at the same time (recs, forms, essays). The idea of sending things in waves - some electronically, some in paper, some through the school - made my teeth hurt. It just seemed so disorganized.

But nine in ten applicants use online now. I read that somewhere. I don’t think that paper would be terribly recieved or anything, unless you used white-out or have terrible handwriting… but these schools have a new adapted system. Some don’t even accept paper anymore.

My strategy: I went through ALL of my schools’ websites, printed every PDF teacher form (so I could hand them in and ask for recs at the same time), got the signed and sealed envelopes back (addressed) - then filled an application, mailed the letters of rec the same day, and sent a transcript from my school the next morning.

It’s really not painful.