<p>i have a friend who is writing his application in invisible ink and sending a black light. i think he is crazy but i just wanted some people's opinions on this.</p>
<p>bump. bump</p>
<p>MIT prefers online applications, but whatever floats your boat.</p>
<p>haha that’s cool.. but i think the admissions officers might get annoyed after a while</p>
<p>I think it’s great…</p>
<p>…but I would get your friend to send a regular, easy-to-read version as well.</p>
<p>Cover your bases. :D</p>
<p>Well if your friend is going to take the risk than he/she should do it.</p>
<p>I mean it is the risk of it that makes it a great idea right?</p>
<p>Still, it is risky…</p>
<p>personally i think the admissions officers would just get annoyed
gimmicks usually don’t work.</p>
<p>the place to get creative is in the essay…</p>
<p>I agree with GasparLewis. If he ONLY wants to send it in invisible ink, it had better be a desperate ploy at his impossible reach school (then again, I guess MIT is that for 99% of applicants…)</p>
<p>It might have worked had your friend invented invisible ink in a chem lab and then wrote their application in it, but since obviously this is not the case, it seems pretty pointless. I don’t think it says anything about a candidate other than that they think MIT will fall for a gimmick.</p>
<p>It reminds me of a story someone told me. I don’t know if it’s true or not. Murray Gell-Mann (Nobel Laureate, physics) invented some kind of blue laser that was a big deal, and then gave a talk using that as his pointer. It seems like a made-up story, but it would be cool if it was true.</p>
<p>I’ve heard of this before. The kid got rejected everywhere and the adcoms just got ****ed off. Why is he relying on gimmicks to compensate for a less than stellar application. That is not what ‘standing out’ means.</p>
<p>Since each applicant’s file is read by several different Admissions Staff members, who are likely to take their day’s stack to a coffee house table or a library on reading days, it’s unlikely they’d carry a blacklight with them to plug in to read one application (I can just see the squinting now, in the bright lights of a Starbucks…). I suspect the application might be opened with the others, assumed to be blank, and marked as unreadable.</p>
<p>Probably not a really good idea.</p>