Online college applications are growing more popular every year—more than half of prospective students used Internet forms to seek admission in 2004—and the Web seems especially popular with people applying for early decision. At the University of Virginia, 89 percent of early-decision applicants used the Web this year.
For at least some students, the decision to apply online is a financial one: George Washington University, for example, offers a $20 discount on its application fee to anyone who chooses Web forms over paper ones. (The Cavalier Daily)
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