<p>Do most people handwrite (print) these? Or type them? Please help! My handwriting is not all that attractive.</p>
<p>My son has bad handwriting, so he did everything possible as typed things. In fact, when there were forms that required handwriting, I helped out by filing in things for him, because his handwriting is pretty much unreadable. I have always felt horrible for his teachers; he's had the problem since he was in kindergarten.</p>
<p>Edit: By "filling out things" I mean, writing in his name, address, etc. We have spent years having agencies and schools put him in their systems with misspelled names/addresses/phone numbers because they couldn't read his handwriting.</p>
<p>Thanks TrinSF -- did you actually use a typewriter? Or just do the fill-in-the-blanks stuff by hand and any longer answer stuff with attached computer documents?</p>
<p>Computer, exactly as your second suggestion. I think one of the applications may have even said that, that you could paste into the space a typed essay, and he did that by printing it out from the computer. </p>
<p>To be clear, I think almost every application was almost entirely done online -- the Common App, many of the supplements, Chicago, etc. My memory is that there were one or two supplemental statements that he had to print out and did the cut-paste number on. Otherwise, I mostly was just called into play to write the name/address/phone/teacher's name/whatever on transcript requests and rec letter forms. I'm not one to have done much "coddling" for applications, but damn, his handwriting sucks. Amusingly, because he filled out information things at college fairs himself, we got several sets of duplicate materials, addressed to different misspelled variations of his name.</p>