On my CV, which I included in each application package I mailed in, I put the address to my personal website. Since the domain name was brand new when I purchased it in September, I had no traffic on the website prior to admissions season. Well, during the admissions season I would regularly check the traffic statistics on my website, which tracks IP addresses. With the use of a free IP address locator,like this one, I would see where in the world these IP addresses going to my website, downloading my papers and looking at my updated CV, were coming from.
I was really quite amazed how accurate it was. I saw activity in Amsterdam (Tinbergen), Atlanta (Emory), Dallas (UTD), Eugene (Oregon), and Vancouver (UBC). It also pinned down an IP address coming from the exact building that houses the Economics Department at Arizona. I also saw activity from Charlottesville (Virginia), but I was not accepted there. No activity from Iowa City (UIowa) or Nashville (Vanderbilt). Putting this together, I saw activity on my website from 6/6 of the schools I've been admitted at so far and only 1/3 of the my rejections
So, for next year's admission season, take the above as my suggestion as a mechanism to help relax your nerves a bit. When someone from a school I applied to would access my website, it would mean that they must have had to been looking at my printed CV in my admissions package, saw the website and typed that address in on their computer. My bandwidth statistics also let me see which page and which files they were downloading too.
All in all, it has been a pretty fun little trick. "