At Harvard all of your material is assembled in a folder and carefully read by as many as four faculty and staff.
Readers like to be able to refer to several items at once and to look at material in any order.
Although a variety of companies and services will try to convince you that we prefer to receive digital applications, this is simply not so - we would have to print every application sent electronically to permit proper evaluation. We appreciate the value of being neat and the sense of making a good presentation that computers provide. It's getting hard to find a typewriter at times and not everyone's handwriting is legible. Then unzip the file, creating a program and directory on your own computer. You may then fill out the four page Common Application item by item, taking as long as you want in as many sessions as you like.