<p>who knows how much stamps cost?</p>
<p>By the addressed and stamped envelope, they mean a regular letter sized envelope, right? Not, like, a giant manilla one or something... right????</p>
<p>If you need them for recommendations' envelopes, as long as you're using a regular or business sized envelope, it's 39 cents for regular mail delivery. You might as way use a business sized envelope, not a large manila envelope because the college will make copies anyway of your reccs, so don't worry about folds.</p>
<p>If you're concerned about how much it costs to mail your whole application, the best thing to do is to weigh it at the post office and then put the required postage on it. You also can can find out and buy the correct postage at the counter where a person can wait on you.</p>
<p>thank you very much. I was worried about having to go out and buy manilla envelopes</p>
<p>if i have cute stamps, will that increase my chances for admission since it gives a good impression?</p>
<p>I haven't been through college admissions yet, so I may be wrong, but I really doubt that the person opening the mail will pay attention to your choice of postage stamp. :P</p>
<p>What if i buy the cute BIG stamps? or custom made ones that say "I LOVE HARVARD!"</p>
<p>If you had cute, big stamps that say, "I love [insert name of college here]" that may impress the colleges that care about perceived interest. IMO, however, if anyone noticed it at a place like Harvard, you'd stand out as someone applying to the wrong school. Harvard is a great place for people who are individualists who are willing to pursue their passions even when others don't get it. It's not a place, however, where people are into things that are cutsie. It is a place where the content of one's application is important -- one's activities, writing flair, leadership. It's not a place where cute packaging is going to impress people.</p>
<p>Come on...how can you resist scented pink paper and an envelope with hearts on it? It shows that you like to have fun with admissions instead of having it as a dry, boring process. It doesnt even cost too much to get custom made stamps. They are sooooooo cute! Im getting mine with hearts in it and "I LOVE HARVARD" in pink and Im putting another one with my picture on it so they know what i look like.</p>
<p>"Come on...how can you resist scented pink paper and an envelope with hearts on it? It shows that you like to have fun with admissions instead of having it as a dry, boring process. It doesnt even cost too much to get custom made stamps. "</p>
<p>To me, it sounds like someone who should be going to finishing school. I'm a Harvard alum. I know some of the admissions officers. I can't think of any Harvard alum or adcom who would be impressed by what you're going to lots of trouble to do. </p>
<p>If you want to spend time to make your application stand out, concentrate on the contents, not the packaging. </p>
<p>What you're describing sounds to me like the type of thing that would be impressive by people at colleges where people do things like decorate their rooms in their school colors. Harvard isn't like that.</p>
<p>I don't think that admissions is a dry, boring process. In fact, I think that being involved in admissions is fun. I doubt that admissions officers think that admissions is dry and boring either. They don't need cutsie things to cheer them up. The things that fascinate admissions officers are essays that are written with flair and out of the box thinking that illuminates a student's interesting personality. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, the person who opens the application envelopes is probably a secretary, not the admissions officer. If you want to go to extra trouble to cheer up a secretary, go for it. My suggestion, though, is to spend any extra time perfecting your essays or taking your ECs an extra step. The kind of thing that you describe could be useful for fundraising or recruiting for an EC: That's where it probably would be productive to put that kind of creative thought and effort.</p>
<p>Perhaps, though, you're kidding and because we're communicating through the Internet, I'm missing your joke.</p>
<p>No joke, no miscommunication...but actually I have little chance of getting into Harvard and some of my match schools are JHU, Cornell, and UofM. But I still think that the pink scented paper is cute and my other ideas too. In Legally Blonde it worked...Elle gave her law professor pink scented paper and then he hit on her. Proves that cuteness is irresistable. Plus Im putting cute stickers and little pictures of me...they'll get to know me better and they need more pretty girls in colleges these days.</p>
<p>bump.................</p>
<p>so are you guys saying it's a bad thing to have pretty packaging?</p>
<p>Have a formal and clean package, not some envelope that seems like it's fit for a barbie doll. Having a custom stamp might be good but instead of putting like "I LOVE HARVARD OMG" have something that'll impress them still like their motto or a picture of their mascot or something... Just... not something that'll make the applicant seem like they are 3..</p>
<p>legally blonde was a MOVIE. it was MADE UP. and what if an admissions officer has allergies to perfume or something? they're looking for maturity and character, not choice of colored paper.</p>
<p>Asayed, in the unlikely event that your comments are not a joke, you shouldn't use the cutesy paper for your Cornell, Michigan, and Hopkins applications either. Those universities aren't exactly happy-go-lucky charm schools.</p>
<p>But none of you have tried it before, so you cant say anything. I'm gonna try it and I'll tell all of you what happens. They cant reject me for the paper, stamps, and envelopes i use; who in their right mind would reject a person who is soooo qualified (me, i have a high chance of getting in) and will make their school look better (I can raise THEIR stats)? </p>
<p>Jeez, Adcoms ARE HUMANS! They dont expect us to be these "Professional Robots", have a little fun with it people!</p>
<p>buummmpppppp</p>
<p>srry i hijacked ur thread ts3433....</p>
<p>Hey, I'm a blonde, and all I have to say about the image I was getting while reading this thread is that it looked strangely Reese Witherspoonish. I mean come on... "they need more pretty girls in colleges these days"? If that doesn't sound blonde, I don't know what does. I don't know about the whole trailer trash thing, but anyways...you're applying to college because of what you have done in high school with your life, not with how well you can copy an idea in a rather horrible movie about an extremely ditzy blonde. That's not original. And I'm pretty sure that the adcoms won't think it's cute. And that's my advice in all seriousness. I wouldn't do it simply because it's already been done.</p>
<p>Srry, didnt mean to give you that image. I was kind of ****ed yesterday...thank you soo much for your thoughtful comment, CC needs more people like you.</p>