Online vs. Paper Applications?

minuteorminute
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:13:42 +0000

i for one find the online recommendation system extremely frustrating.

at my school there is a letter service where letter writers mail their letters to this service, and the students use this service to distribute letters to the schools they’re applying to. it’s an easy system and only takes one letter from each writer.

now with the online requirement for recommendations (a lot of the schools i’ve looked at require it), letter writers have to submit information multiple times (which gets aggravating, is time consuming, and frustrating for the student when you have to remind three people that deadlines are coming up).

i’d say i loathe using an online system for recommendations (though not for submitting the student’s personal application). it gets especially frustrating for letter writers when for every student whom they’ve agreed to write for, they are faced with 7+ online registration e-mails to fill out. it is simply not a reasonable system, and i hope they change this aspect in the future.