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Text Messaged Acceptance

// February 8th, 2006 // Technology Bits

Creighton University has started sending early acceptance to students who opted in for SMS notification. In laymans terms, they text message their cell phones.

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. [...]
Opting for the text message allows students to know the university’s decision up to a week earlier. [...] 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. [...]
Katie Infantine, 17, of San Diego, [...] “Text messaging is really popular with my friends,” Infantine said. “So the fact a college would do that is really cool.”

Some may see this as a gimmick, but I think this is a fantastic way of generating buzz in high schools nationwide in the hallways, in a very personal way. Nothing like speaking to students with technologies they are familiar with.

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