quite possibly a stupid ?

[osar92]

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okay okay, it may be a dumb question but i seriously dont know the answer....

once you fill all out all the necessary papers for a secondary and print all the extra questions out... are you supposed to staple all that stuff together before you mail it in, or do you just mail everything in unstapled?

thanks

 

[Street Philosopher]

you're supposed to print it out on continuous paper.

 

[opus03]

If there were a lot of pages, I just paperclipped them together.

 

[Kurleyfry]

once the pristine paper has been punctured by a staple, it loses some credibility. admissions committee think, if this is how he or she would treat a piece of paper, think of what harm they might do to a patient. stapled secondaries then form a group at the bottom of the application pile. personally, i ironed all of my papers and placed them in a tasteful clear plastic folder, like you would for a term paper. i like to think i was rewarded for my neatness.

 

[aznboy]

lol
How can they compare stapling some papers with treating a patient?

 

[myhc]

paper clips is the way to go

 

[PublicHealth]

Just hammer a nail through the papers, and then curl the end of the nail to hold them together.

 

[thackl]

glue

 

[Columbia22]

they say human pee is the best adhesive...but then again, thats just what they say

 

[Paws]

I think the paperclips are decent; as long as it looks as professional as possible. Altho, I remember stopping into Columbia's Admissions office last summer and having a chat with the women there (wow! really nice women!) and let me tell you, I saw stacks of handwritten LORs, handwritten envelopes and all kinds of other very humble things all over their desks.

In the end, we aren't really going to be penalized for this kind of stuff - I mean, that's not exactly fair - so I think one should just use their best judgement and make everything look as nice as possible. Someone told me how when they were a Ugrad at Columbia about 20 years ago that there was a University wide policy that you were allowed to HANDWRITE your papers and were not to be penalized for it. And this guy actually did and got his A's !