<p>OMAHA, Neb. – High school students aren’t waiting for the mail each day to find out if they’ve been accepted at Creighton University – they’re looking at their cell phones.</p>
<p>Since November, 700 students – or 44 percent – of those admitted to Creighton have been notified through a text message. The school added the option on application forms last fall.</p>
<p>The university is trying to respond to the needs of its students, said Mary Chase, director of admissions and scholarships at Creighton.</p>
<p>“Students are so interested in having instant information,” she said.</p>
<p>Opting for the text message allows students to know the university’s decision up to a week earlier. She said text messages are sent to students within 24 hours of the admission committee’s decisions, whereas letters can take several days to draft and then arrive in the mail.</p>
<p>Katie Infantine, 17, of San Diego, says she ran to her family members and showed them her acceptance message.</p>
<p>“Text messaging is really popular with my friends,” Infantine said. “So the fact a college would do that is really cool.” </p>
<p>My opinion on this idea in the first post…I’m not into it. I realize the kids elected if they wanted it or not. But this can be accomplished with the online notifications on websites or emails. I think when a kid goes to either check snail mail or email or a website, they are “ready” insofar as expecting to get some sort of notification. I’m not sure I would be into such a message coming while they checked their cell phone in class or while driving a car or something or other. I realize kids are into IMs and text messaging but for SOME things, of a more “official” type and not a social thing, I think email or other mail should suffice. </p>
<p>And yeah, I am wondering what the text messages said!</p>
<p>the funny thing is that parents think they are being clever by saying these things when really kids think you sound stupid lol</p>
<p>it seems like a text message is a better way than online because online you have to CONSTANTLY check to see if it is up yet…text message is instant and you know when you have one. i can just see it now…kids start jumping up in class because they checked their phone and then they get sent to the principal’s office lol</p>
<p>The truly funny thing that hasn’t occurred to you is that ALL the parents were kids once themselves, and we remember very well how stupid we thought our parents sounded. EVERY generation does this. And for the most part we now look back and wince at the realization of where the stupidity really was. In another decade or so, you will too. lol</p>
<p>I’d hate to receive admissions decisions by text message. I’m not even sure I’ll want to check online–but then I’ve always been a little bit old-fashioned.</p>
<p>Personally, I am anti-text messaging. People write things in shorthand, it costs money, and it just doesn’t make sense. Phones are there to TALK to people, not leave them words on a screen!</p>
<p>I’m 19, and I’m not that big of a cell phone guy. I got it for the sole purpose of having my own telephone number that would be permanent no matter what happened to me (move at home, go to another school, etc). I use it mostly at home because I don’t use the regular phone for much except the internet. On the road, it sits on my passenger seat, rarely used. If I do need to call someone in an emergency, I use the speaker phone because I hate taking a hand off the wheel, and I know that phones are as bad as driving drunk in most cases.</p>
<p>I have never sent a text message in my life, am not really sure how to access my voicemail, and have never used web or email on the phone. I don’t have a camera, nor do I want one–what is the purpose of taking low-resolution pictures with a TELEPHONE?!?</p>
<p>I also find it rude to have phones going off. My phone is always on vibrate mostly because I can’t stand ringtones of any sort. The vibrate is loud enough for me to hear if the phone isn’t on my desk/workbench at the time but is in the same room.</p>
<p>Also, I hate it when people talk in public. There’s nothing worse than being at a nice place to eat and watching some guy have a loud conversation with his ex-girlfriend. FOR PETE’S SAKE, WHERE HAS COURTESY GONE?!?</p>
<p>And now to hear of colleges sending text messages. This is unbelievable. It’s just WRONG…</p>
<p>Don’t let your children try to fool you. It’s really shorthand for “less than three”. The IM probably meant that your daughter is less as good as this “Matt” character is three times over.</p>