Text Messaged Acceptance
February 8, 2006
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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also, the key for this article is just how prevalent cell phones are. also, you CAN hear the vibrate setting, just because it isnt RINGING doesnt mean you dont hear it.