<p>I think that you should stop worrying about things that you have no control over, and instead should enjoy your senior year, which is drawing to a close, and marks a major transition in your life -- many things you'll never experience again.</p>
<p>Don't worry about whether to accept Harvard's offer until you get it. If you want to worry about something, then obsess over which acceptance to accept from the colleges that you applied to that already have accepted you or are very likely to accept you. If Harvard accepts you, you always can decide to focus on whether to accept its offer. Meanwhile, you're just spinning your wheels and wasting your time.</p>
<p>Are you absolutely nuts? Do you really have the time to post about something so thouroughly unimportant? No school is going to be like "I'm offended by all of these folds. I HATE FOLDS, and don't even get me started on small envelopes..." You're fine, enjoy your senior year.</p>
<p>"I think this is just a part of all overachievers - we have breakdowns about things like the foldings of rec. letters."</p>
<p>OR OCD?</p>
<p>One issue with 3rd party recs to consider is ALWAYS give them a fake deadline BEFORE you actually need it. S just had one med school put his file at the bottom because it recieved a professor's rec letter a few days after deadline. Because of the late arrival, they removed his file from the cue and set it aside for next review. </p>
<p>I would worry more about deadlines than folds.</p>
<p>if this is how you are for a piece of paper, how are you with really big stuff? egad</p>
<p>FOR THE LAST TIME>>>>the school won't care, and with this attitude you will have a miserable time in college if each and every little thing sets you off like this</p>
<p>Do you really think the school is so petty as to say, gee, this nice lady sent in the great rec but its has a fold extra!!!</p>
<p>and they don't look for little stuff lke this...why do you give them so little credit and you are darm lucky someone sent you a recommedation if you are anything like this in person you would make most people bonkers just listening to you whine</p>
<p>"danget i bet im screwed, they look for little stuff like this to weed out applicants" Are you nuts? they couldn't care less about the folds in your letter, and they do not weed out applicants based on things this small. If you panic about things like this, I am genuinely worried about your mental state. What happens when you actually get to college? A nervous breakdown seems like a distinct possibility.</p>
<p>idiots. no one cares about the envelope. Regular white paper? OH my god. Yeah, you're def screwed. I wouldn't wipe my ass with regular white paper.</p>
<p>it is a PERSONAL letter of recommendation...not everyone has letterhead in their personal life and it doesn't need to look professional...its PERSONAL and it matters not about the envelope, the folds etc</p>
<p>you need to learn about the real world and how it works and if yo don't get in it won't be because of this letter, believe me, it will be because of a lack of maturity and understanding of how life works</p>
<p>how would it be because of a lack of maturity? yes like i said probably a lack of understand of how life works as in it should have been more professionally done..like i said in the first place, gosh i am worried</p>
<p>well, let it go. and it is a lack of maturity to stress about this...a mature person would let it go, be grateful for a nice letter of recommendation and see that things happen in all kinds of ways</p>
<p>and can you at least admit that most people don't have their own personal letterhead and that no college expects them to?</p>
<p>so go worry yourself silly, spend hours stressing about it instead of focussing on other things, a mature person would let it go and realize how silly they are being</p>
<p>I feel bad that you will have an ulcer soon if this is what sets you off</p>
<p>I understand it is your dream but that letter of recommendation will not make or break the admisttance</p>
<p>I think you are afraid you won't get accepted and are looking for some reason besides yourself as a reason...just a thought</p>
<p>This non=perfect letter not on letterhead will not harm you, and if you think it will, you are creating drama just to create drama, and that is immature</p>
<p>Did you know that letter get damaged in the mail all the time, and its okay?</p>
<p>Did you know that most people don't have letterhead, or are you willingingly ignoring that fact?</p>
<p>Did you know that people send letters in smaller envelopes ALL THE TIME and the worlds still turns?</p>
<p>If I were the person that wrote that recommendation and heard you whining like this, I might have regretted my decision to help a person who has no clue about the world....</p>
<p>If you get in wonderful, but if you don't don't you DARE blame that letter, that would be about as unfair as you could get, but I could see you doing that</p>
<p>I keep wondering whether this is a troll because it's hard for me to believe that someone who's smart enough to apply to Harvard (where the dean of admissions says that 90% of applicants qualify for admission) could really believe that their admission chances would be damaged by a recommendation letter that's in a small envelope and is not on letterhead. This simply doesn't seem like the kind of criticial thinking that a person who applied to Harvard would display. </p>
<p>If it's indeed not a troll, I wonder what the rest of the student's application contained (referring to the part that the student was responsible for) because this student doesn't seem to be able to figure out what's important to have in an application and what's not.</p>
<p>I can understand students who worry about the content of their essays and short answers. That makes sense to me because those are the kind of things that are very important ot admissions. I can't understand anyone who's obsessing about an envelope and paper.</p>
<p>"If I were the person that wrote that recommendation and heard you whining like this, I might have regretted my decision to help a person who has no clue about the world...."</p>
<p>I definitely would have regretted my decision to help the student, and it would be the last time I'd give that person any kind of recommendation because I'd have a lot of doubts about their reasoning ability as well as their sense of appreciation.</p>