<p>I’m not even to the application yet and I’m already stressing - ahh! So anyway, I have a few questions and was looking for opinions. Warning - these are extremely nitpicky questions but please don’t rag on me too much for asking them. </p>
<li><p>On the Secondary and Colleges Previously Attended Portion it asks for Dates of Attendance. Should I just put down years like 2004-2005, or make it more specific like Fall 2004-Spring 2005, or even more so with Aug 2004 - March 2005? Keep in mind there is limited room on this line and I don’t want my writing to look cluttered. </p></li>
<li><p>Is there any way to type the responses for this or are we forced to write it all down? </p></li>
<li><p>How does everyone feel about the waiver of access form? Should I waive access or not and why? What is more popular? Will this affect things a lot? </p></li>
<li><p>Okay - this might seem tricky, but I want to grab onto every possible advantage I have. I just moved last week from Clarksville, Tennessee (town about an hour north of Nashville) to Reston, Virginia. Should I put down the Tennessee address as my permanent address because maybe being from Tennessee will be more “interesting” than Virginia? Will that put me in a different admissions category? Will it matter at all? Am I overanalyzing this? Mail is being forwarded from there so that would be okay.</p></li>
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<p>Honestly a lot of us first of all, aren't transfers so it would be rare to be able to help you. Second, I think you're over analyzing a lot of the app. For the dates, stick to years, unless you type it.</p>
<p>I'm not sure for the transfer app, but for the freshman app, it was a pdf found on the website. Thus, if you open it with adobe, it will let you type straight onto the document, but you can not save it though. </p>
<p>As for the location, I doubt it really matters, if it was a freshman app, I'd say diff. But for transfer..I don't think it really matters.</p>
<p>And for the Waiver of Access, I'd waive it. What that does is make it so that you won't be able to see your recs (once at GU) so in theory it will allow the admissions office to take the recs with more honesty</p>
<p>I'm a transfer applicant and I am typing on the forms to make it neat. The only way that you'll be able to do this, to my knowledge, is to find a computer with Adobe Professional (at my college they've got one) and create text fields all throughout the document. It should be a bit of a surprise for them to see a typed version, although I'm sure someone else has thought of it as well.</p>
<p>As for the other questions, you should repost in the transfer forum, where there are several recent G-Town transfers that may be able to help you more. Good luck.</p>
<p>An easier solution:
Drag a marque over the entire page and copy it as an image to paste in a Word document. Expand the margins as far as possible, but unless you have a very expensive printer, it probably won't print all the way to the edge of the page, so watch out in case something gets cut off (It actually probably won't happen since the form already has natural margins). In Word you can create text boxes over the fields and type in.</p>
<p>You can also do the same thing in Photoshop, though formatting text in photoshop is a bit of a pain in the ass.</p>
<p>Don't even bother knocking yourselves out. Handwriting makes no difference and that's what I did. As for smiledarling's questions...you are overanalyzing the crap out of this!! It's a personal data form!!!!!!! just meant to get you a place in Georgetown's computer software to initiate your application. And no, do not put Tennessee as your permanent address if you live in Virginia. One , because it's not true that TN is your permanent address and two, because it will make no difference!!!!!</p>