<p>I spent a lot of my savings on mailing my common app art supplement portfolio to Stanford with registered mail and I know someone at the office received the package. (It's due Dec. 1) HOWEVER my prints were not waterproof (inkjet) so I put them individually in plastic sleeves and fastened them together.</p>
<p>and then today I read on the common app Stanford Supplement:
"Credentials should never be submitted in binders or folders as such materials will be destroyed before ever reaching an admission officer."</p>
<p>what do I do now?! there is no express mail service that will deliver to Stanford from where I am (international) within 4 days.</p>
<p>am I doomed forever? should I withdraw my application?</p>
<p>(P.S. why do they destroy materials in binders anyway?)</p>
<p>chan: what they mean is they don’t want stuff in binders as a flourish. What they do is scan everything to easily disseminate it. They don’t want kids to supply super fancy binders or packaging because it’s worthless to the evaluation process and will be thrown out. The fact that your items are in protective sleeves is nothing. The office worker will logically remove them to scan the items. </p>
<p>Please calm down and think what the rule actually addresses. They don’t want kids to submit a folder with pictures, newspaper items, certificates, etc. in binders. Because all that is irrelevant. Your art supplement is something different. Get it?</p>
<p>They destroy everything submitted because there is no mechanism to store or return them. Simple.</p>
<p>I’m curious as why you just didn’t send a photo CD of your work. That would have been best. I hope you actually didn’t send original samples of your artwork. That’d be unfortunate.</p>