Sending in materials by mail

Applying to College
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<p>Hi. I know sending in materials by mail is not recommended and it’s better to send it in via the Internet, but I don’t have a choice. My guidance counselor does not send in our school reports via the Internet, and the same goes for our transcripts. (Our transcripts are sealed, though, with an official school seal.) Obviously, since they don’t want you to send it in by mail, some schools make it a little difficult to find information for sending materials by mail. I already have some of these, but there are so many different addresses for the different schools I want to make sure I submit them to the right ones. </p>

<p>So could you please provide the address and/or links to the school’s site where they say the address for any of the following schools? Thank you so much!
-Cornell University (CALS program)
-Rice University
-University of Virginia
-Princeton University
-Stanford University
-George Washington University
-Bucknell University
-University of Chicago</p>

<p>Also, two more questions:

  1. It says to include your name and birth year on each page of mailed-in materials, but since they are official copies I can’t do that for my transcript. And I assume I shouldn’t do that for the papers my guidance counselor gave me. Correct?</p>

<p>2) Since they are supposed to be coming from my school, should I put my school as the return address on the envelopes, should I not put one at all, or should I put mine? (Sorry if that seems like a dumb question, I just want to be sure.)</p>

<p>Thank you so much!</p>

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<p>For addresses, you simply want the Admissions address, which is usually very easy to find under a Contact Us link, for instance for Rice:</p>

<p>rice.edu > Admission, Undergrad > Contact Us</p>

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<li><p>Ask your school to do so before the transcripts/GC papers are sealed. If they won’t do it, write the information on the envelope.</p></li>
<li><p>Put your address. Then if the materials are returned for some reason, you will know immediately and be able to deal with the problem. If it goes back to the school, there may be a delay or it may not get back to you at all. Colleges don’t care about who actually mails things, just that transcripts and School forms are sealed and official.</p></li>
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<p>entomom:
Okay, thanks!</p>

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<li><p>Yeah, the way our Guidance Counselor does it is she just fills out the form once or twice and has us make copies as needed. So I suppose I can do that for the Secondary School Report. But I can’t do it for the transcripts–those are sealed before we receive them. </p></li>
<li><p>Okay, that’s what I thought! Thanks again!</p></li>
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<p>Edit: Even though Rice does have a “Contact Information” section, it doesn’t say that you can send Application Materials there. That is my concern–I don’t want to send it to their general office.</p>

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<p>That’s where it goes. Admissions is only for UG, graduate schools are separate.</p>

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<p>But the general office address is for everything, not just admissions materials. So I doubt you’re supposed to send your admissions stuff there. Most schools have an admissions office.</p>

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<p>Like they say at BK: Have it your way! :)</p>

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<p>The general office in the office of undergraduate admissions listed to contact the office of undergraduate admissions is, indeed, where your documents need to go-- I doubt they would have provided two addresses, one for USPS and one for express mail if they had expected otherwise. The other option is to pull up the paper supplements for the schools you are applying to-- I’d be willing to bet, along the top, is the address where you need your documnets to.</p>