Does this award warrant an update?

gibby
Sun, 09 Nov 2014 21:55:18 +0000

^^ Up until a few years ago, you could only snail mail or fax Admissions updates, as the fileroom did not open email attachments, and you could not upload documents to the portal. Faxes spewing out of a fax machine demand immediate attention, otherwise paper starts to pile up – so, IMHO it’s the quickest way for an update to be read (whereas it could take weeks for someone to actually read an upload or an email). And FWIW: Admissions still requires specific documents, such as a Sibling Enrollment form to be faxed to them from the sibling’s college.

Every school has official stationary, usually principals and teachers have access to it, but students do not. LoR’s and updates from teachers/advisors should be on official school stationary, otherwise Admissions might think the applicant wrote the letter themselves. Many high schools have electronic letterheads that are basically word doc stationary templates.