The CommonApp and the college supplements through their website 's little boxes for the essays are annoying aren’t they? I can’t 1.5 or double space, should you do it there? I can’t have indentations for paragraphs. What about you guys, and when I manually indent everything, things don’t line up right. What should I do?<br>
Can I send snail mail essays to colleges too?
<p>you're not supposed to indent or double space or anything. </p>
<p>don't worry. the colleges know commonapp limitations.</p>
<p>Yeah, it sucks, but you just have to make do with it. </p>
<p>You can snail mail the whole application and essays if you really wanted to.</p>
<p>You can indent using spaces.</p>
<p>Can you indent? My S was having problems with it, and I found that if we tried to indent, the software skipped a line. It designates a new paragraph by skipping a line. I also noticed when we printed out the common app that the essays printed out in an extremely small font. What my S did (ok, ok, we advised and helped) was snail mailed a double spaced copy of the essay along with a brief note, something to the effect that "here is an easier to read copy of my commonapp essay."</p>