<p>Does anyone know how the ivy league and top tier schools view an admissions application that is handwritten if the handwriting is very neat?
One of the colleges I am applying to has the option of using their own application or the common application. I want to use their application as there are spaces on that application to put down titles for extra curricular activities ect. However I dont want to do it on line as it limits some of the things I can put in.
How do the ivy league and other top tier schools view an application that is received hand written if it is extremely neat?</p>
<p>I don't think it'll make ur chances any better. i mean, it certainly wont make ur chances worse, but they wont put a plus mark on your application just because your writing's neat.</p>
<p>Since they prefer online (makes life easier for them in a number of ways) it won't help you at all, could possibly be a problem if your definition of neat is not the college's.</p>
<p>Well Princeton has their own app and uses the common app as well.</p>
<p>They really show no preference between the two. However they make
it adequately clear that they prefer online submissions.</p>
<p>If you are applying to P you are going to stand out in a bad sort of way
if you send in a hand written app.</p>
<p>-- from someone admitted to P in '08 after having sent in the common app and
a ton of additional information using the additional information section</p>