In the Wolverine State, the road to college is paved with online applications. About 70 percent of applicants to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor fill out their forms on the Web, and half of prospective students at Eastern Michigan University do the same. Administrators say they’re happy with that development—because online applications save paperwork, and because they can’t be plagued by bad penmanship. (The Ann Arbor News)



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