<p>heyyy, I finally finished my app, essays, etc. and threw in an activity resume with it. All in all, it's probably 15 pages or so, heh. So, should I paper clip the 3 different things, i.e. paperclip the common app, paperclip the yale supp, and paperclip act. resume, orrrr should I just put them all in order without any paperclips?</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>I used paper clips. that way they can take the app. apart, then put it back together as they want. </p>
<p>I don't think it really matters though</p>
<p>I stapled each section separately and paperclipped some parts. It doesn't really matter.</p>
<p>I also used paperclips. it's your call</p>
<p>Yeah I stapled each section seperately, and paperclipped all of them together when I was finished.</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>does anyone else find it amusing that we're talking about this?</p>
<p>I paperclipped it all, and I got rejected. Therefore, if you paperclip it all, you will be rejected. :) Just kidding....i think.....</p>
<p>paper clipped each section and then the whole thing together.. with multi colored paper clips. i was also rejected. hmmm...</p>
<p>shooot, i decided to use paperclips and also used multi-colors.</p>
<p>okay, I did silver, green, yellow in the order of common, Yale supp, and my printed resume thing. this better not get me auto rejected! hehe j/k j/k</p>
<p>ahhh feels great to have that app sent off :) though I keep fearing I messed something up and now it's too late to change it...</p>
<p>btw, i didn't use staples because that puts holes in the papers, and you know they'll have to take out the staple when they're reading thru everything.</p>
<p>Wow, this thread is pretty funny. Maybe the fact that I didn't staple or paper clip will be the hook that will get me an acceptance letter come April. ;)</p>
<p>hmmm...interesting...</p>
<p>for my yale stuff, I stapled my 2-page activity sheet, then paper clipped everything together in one huge pile (generic metal color, not multi-colored)... I paper clipped all of my Stanford EA stuff (seems to have worked for me...hehe)</p>
<p>OK, very important</p>
<p>Paperclips, medium size. This is the ONLY option for anyone seriously considering Yale.</p>
<p>Paperclips-Small: One day, the admissions officer will see your application with the tiny paperclip. A few things will go through his/her mind:
1.) You didn't even take the trouble to use a significantly sized paper-clip. Your desire to save .01 cents signifies how little you think of Yale. Therefore, your paperclip will be used to open up a tiny rift in space/time (its that small), and regardless of how many angels can fit on the head of a pin, your application is going straight the other way.</p>
<p>2.) Some of these people have children. How could you dare to be so insensitive to put in a paper clip, so small that it would surely choke any todler (or Hollywood star) that got within 3 feet of it. Your insensitivity mark you as a harvard man, and just as an extra punch in the gut, you're waitlisted until 2439 with no hope of acceptance.</p>
<p>Paperclip-large:1.) You didn't even take the trouble to consider the effect on the environment. Your lack of desire to save .000000000000001 mountains signifies how little you think of Yale. Therefore, your paperclip will be used to open up a hugerift in space/time (it has that much leverage), and regardless of how many whales you can harpoon with it, your application is going straight to the bottom of the ocean.</p>
<p>2.) Some of these people have children. How could you dare to be so insensitive to put in a paper clip, so large that it would surely choke any todler (or DC politican) that got within 3 feet of it. Your insensitivity mark you as a Princeton woman, and just as an extra punch in the gut, youre waitlisted until 2437 (two years less due to parole) with no hope of acceptance.</p>
<p>Staples:
1.) Poor admissions officer. Looking over your application, the officer will decide to get a holistic view, and try to take appart the application to look at multiple pages at once. In doing so, they will inadvertantly cut themselves under the fingernail. Slowly bleeding out, the paramedics will be forced to do CPR on the table, ruining 34% of the applicatios. As such, you have both caused the slow and painful death of an admissions officer, and caused Yale to accept good football players for once. When Harvard looses the next 4 games against Yale, they appeal to MIT for help. Suddenly, a nuclear (not Nuculur, Dubya) blast erases New Haven off of the map, and all that is left is a large crator with a small bent staple lying as a relic of a long lost past.</p>
<p>2.) The admissions officer owns large amounts of Office Max stock. Seeing the staple, she decides to go and put all of her money in Staples stock. After a freak paper-clip accident due to a large/small sized paper-clip (you can never win), Staples goes bankrupt, and the admissions officer spikes your application at all universities, forcing you to go to the South Dakota School of Mining, at which, you get trapped in a cave and are forced to spend the rest of your life as a hobo.</p>
<p>Well guys, I hope that I've presented a positive view of why medium sized-paper clips are the ONLY option. Of course, you could just apply online and leave that all up to Yale (who will, of course, use those large paper holders to be absolutely politically correct, and will add on an extra 3 cents to your application fee, causing your bank account to go under and the IRS to send you off to debtors prison in Sri Lanka. It just isn't your day).</p>
<p>LOL. If you use paperclips, the admissions officers can take them off and make chain jewelry out of them. I think you'd get bonus points for entertaining the adcom as well as impressing them.</p>
<p>I think everyone is forgetting alternative options like "the european staple." I'm sure that's not what they are really called, but that's what we called them when we got them at last year's IB exams. It was a bit of string and on either end was a .5" plastic stick, kinda like very very small nunchucks. Best part of the IB exams, for sure.</p>
<p>hahaha glad to see someone in the holiday spirit! :)</p>
<p>Oh, I remember those European staples! I wanted to keep them, but the proctor would only give one out to each person, even though there were only 10 people taking the test and a few dozen in each bag.</p>
<p>I applied RD and didn't use any devices of organization at all -- just put it all in one envelope in a semi-coherent order. I think I'm doomed.</p>