<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>This is a stupid question but I was wondering if I should use this linen cream-colored paper for my resume and request for recommendation. Only asking this because my mom bought this paper and this is the only use for it i could think of but I'm worried it'll look pretentious. Thoughts?</p>
<p>You’ll definitely get rejected if you use cream colored paper. I can’t believe you would even consider something like that. Maybe you shouldn’t be going to college at all… =</p>
<p>Yes. Use it. I use special paper for only a few things including English papers and resumes for interviews - things I hold dear to my heart. Utilize the fancy paper your mother bought you absolutely!</p>
<p>My opinion: It would definitely show that you are more interested in the application itself, as opposed to someone who printed theirs out on regular white printer paper.</p>
<p>2:1 Use it then? I didn’t really consider how much interest it would show but I just have any other purpose for the paper. However, if having the fancy paper could convey how important the recs are then why the heck not!</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice!</p>
<p>I think it sends a message of you are trying to hard.</p>
<p>It’s just paper. I don’t think it will matter one way or another.
My recs will go on our school’s official letterhead. My resume will go on regular paper.
Colleges most likely won’t be swayed either way by paper, it’s just paper.</p>
<p>BE CAREFUL! I would personally not use the special paper. I have taken a college essay writing course and have talked to admissions counselors. They don’t like gimmicks. I have heard of stories of people writing their essays on a basketball or sending in cookies after writing about how they love to bake. They don’t even look at those essays. While using nice paper is not as extreme as this, I would be careful. Like mentioned above, don’t make it look like you are trying too hard.</p>
<p>Save yourself the angst. Apply online.</p>
<p>All Common App members–ALL Common App members–prefer that you apply online. It makes their lives infinitely easier. Why? For starters, many of them are now reading your applications online, which means that anything mailed has to be scanned (extra work), which also means that the people evaluating your application have no no idea what kind of paper you used.</p>
<p>Second, if they are still reading paper apps, any part of the application that you mail needs to be hand-entered into their student information system (more extra work). If you apply online, these places simply need to print your application–and I can guarantee you they are not printing on linen paper.</p>