<p>Wait... the "tell us about your summers" was supposed to be essay form? I just wrote it up like an EC list!</p>
<p>i don't think there is one right way to do it...i think they left the directions purposely vague.</p>
<p>I sent a 6 page resume btlesgirl!!!! Is that really going to be detrimental to my application??:(</p>
<p>My Summers "essay" was only 117 words long, but I like to think they were well-chosen. ;) </p>
<p>My second long essay (inspired by a Richard Dawkins quote) was 511. Ah, well.</p>
<p>I mailed my application on January 1, but in my mad dash to the post office (I raced through the doors literally 10 seconds before it closed) I forgot about the "What else would you like us to know?" form. It isn't a crucial part of my application, but it does give some information that the rest of the app doesn't convey at all. Should I mail it separately on January 3, or just forget about it?</p>
<p>Mail it. Couldn't hurt to try.</p>
<p>yea definitly mail it. they'll take it as long as the app itself is in</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure they won't even notice considering that the people who actually read the applications usually aren't the ones who sit around opening envelopes. I was worried about this too...but go ahead and send it.</p>
<p>How does that work anyway?
I heard that at some schools it was students assistants who sat around opening envelopes and placing papers in the files and they don't even care about looking at the dates and stuff.</p>
<p>I think that's probably true. But if they ever said "OK, well you don't ACTUALLY have to postmark your stuff by this date" then a lot of people would send it too late and it would take forever to get everything sorted. I think that they won't begin reviewing a file until EVERYTHING is in it, so not until mid-February if they wait for all of the applicants (including internationals) to have everything in. </p>
<p>I read one of those Michele Hernandez books and she said not to ever waste money Fedex rushing something to a school because it will sit in a mail room for a week and nobody will even notice. If 20,000 applicants mail in at least 1 package (for recs and such) (and sometimes 2 or 3 or 4 or 5), that is a looooot of mail.</p>
<p>Where's the harm in at least SENDING stuff, even if it is just a trifle late? (Tell them you were overcome with patriotic grief over the death of Gerald Ford.) </p>
<p>Princeton doesn't send the Tardy Application Squad to your house to have you dragged out of your computer nook and then beaten in the middle of the night... Worst they can do is reject you, which is effectively the same as (if slightly more humiliating than) what happens if you don't mail in anything in AT ALL.</p>
<p>Does this make sense? I have been doing apps for four or five days straight, and I am exhausted and probably delirious.</p>
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Princeton doesn't send the Tardy Application Squad to your house to have you dragged out of your computer nook and then beaten in the middle of the night...
LOL. You do have a point there.</p>