Online vs. Paper Applications?

RacinReaver
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:40:25 +0000

If they submit online you get a notification that it has been completed and you can stop worrying if the letter got to the school or not. You can check the website and see who is slacking and who needs a little push.



This alone was the best thing about online applications for me. One of my schools required that recommendations be mailed in, and they took about two weeks after receiving the recommendation to update my account status online. I was starting to sweat pretty bad since I was already home for winter break and my recommender had been putting off writing that recommendation for months (all the online ones were done within a day or two of them receiving the notification e-mail).

Also, as a note to all applicants. Be sure to put your name at the top of EVERY page you send with your applications. On your SOP put a header or footer with your name, program, and page number. It might seem unlikely, but what if they print off 100 applications and then accidentally drop a stack of unstapled applications. Think that sort of attention to detail might be a nice little feather in your cap?