Just over half of the applications that Yale University received last year were submitted online, but campus officials would like to see that number much higher. It is much easier to review the applications on computers, the administrators say, than to look them over in print.
But a number of students still prefer hard-copy forms to their digital counterparts: Web applications, they say, aren’t especially user-friendly, and they don’t offer the writerly flexibility of the traditional documents. (Yale Daily News)
