<p>Did anyone handwrite their applications, especially to the top 15?</p>
<p>i did ...................</p>
<p>i just filled out the adddresss/sat score sections w. hand-writing, anything like an essay, i wrote see attached, and attached an essay from the computer</p>
<p>any ap that i could do it over the internet such as Penn, Columbia, Northwestern, I did it entirely over the internet</p>
<p>i was going to handwrite some essays but i decided not to. i would much rather fill in the blanks on an online applications that attach a resume.</p>
<p>for clarification: i never handwrite the essays, but always the other parts of the app.</p>
<p>It is sometimes good to handwrite the short-answer parts of an application; though one may be afraid of committing an error, 'scratching out' and such add a human touch to the application. Handwritten applications give the impression that the applicant wants to come to that school, rather than the impression that the applicant merely changed the header of a typed document.</p>
<p>Of course, now we are merely grasping at straws. This is a very minor (folk?) psychological bonus.</p>
<p>I handwrote my applications (bar the essays of course).</p>
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though one may be afraid of committing an error, 'scratching out' and such add a human touch to the application
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<p>this seems absurd... scratching out would just make the application look shoddy. Of course, you and I are both speculating so we don't know.</p>
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this seems absurd... scratching out would just make the application look shoddy. Of course, you and I are both speculating so we don't know.
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<p>Oddly enough, that was mentioned in at least two of the college admissions texts I read last year.</p>
<p>No one is perfect. I know students who even spelled their name incorrectly, but were somehow admitted into Harvard.</p>
<p>Well I can proudly say that I PDF edited every single one of my applications and they probably lack human touch but are very pretty :D</p>
<p>I think that you are right about that though. I debated on it for about five minutes but then after I typed ,it looked irresistably good. I decided to go with professional, being that I am slightly older.</p>
<p>I handwrote the short answers and the shorter essays and included a typed personal statement. I thought that after reading my cramped, small (neat, but small) handwriting, they'd appreciate not having to strain their eyes reading the long essay. Plus, handwriting is more personal, but typing seems more put-together/professional, somehow...</p>
<p>same with a lot of the others on this thread, i typed the essays and sometimes wrote in the other parts...depending on the format of the app. :) other times the option of typing directly onto the app and then printing was a lot easier. i think there's hardly a difference between neat handwriting and typing since they have so many applications to read.</p>
<p>PDF editor is cool.</p>
<p>martini, did you pay for that? I used Acrobat Professional and DL'd an update...the typewriter tool and used that.</p>
<p>If I thought they would be able to read my writing, I would have hand written most of my applications. Unfortunately, even I can't read my handwriting and I have to take a laptop to everyclass so I can take notes that I will use :s</p>