<p>A pretty good indicator for me was seeing that the application check was cashed. </p>
<p>However some day I'd like to hear an Admissions Office 'splain just exactly HOW they produce the miracle of application, recommendations, test scores and transcripts--all sent by different people at different times--ending up in the right student's application folder. </p>
<p>I hear the tiffin (lunchbox) carriers in Bombay have this incredibly complex human patchwork system of delivering millions of lunches to millions of officeworkers from millions of different homes, every day without fail to the right office, and sometimes I visualize it must be a scenario sort of like that.</p>