| [ MIT ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): Renoir (☆르놔르☆) 날 짜 (Date): 1998년 8월 4일 화요일 오후 12시 33분 17초 제 목(Title): [뉴스] MIT Sloan 입학원서를 온라인으로 MIT business school kisses paper applications goodbye By Robin Estrin, Associated Press, 08/03/98 CAMBRIDGE - Students aspiring to attend one of the country's most prestigious business schools can say farewell to a well-known ritual: the frantic, down-to-the-wire trip to mail an application by the deadline. Beginning this month, MIT's Sloan School of Management will accept applications only via computer - apparently becoming the nation's first graduate or undergraduate school to adopt the high-tech policy. Plenty of the nation's 3,400 colleges and universities have been experimenting with electronic applications, using them as one admission option for the computer-savvy. But Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan appears to be charting new territory with the class that will enter in September 1999. ''I don't know of anybody who's gone 100 percent that way,'' said Mark Milroy, chief officer of programs and services with the National Association for College Admission Counseling. By wiping out paper applications, MIT says it will be able to save thousands of dollars in processing, printing and postage costs - plus hundreds of hours of valuable staff time. Using a new Internet site started by the folks who sponsor the Graduate Management Admission Test - the standardized exam for business school admission - applicants can fill out the required Sloan School forms, pay the application fees, and arrange to have their GMAT scores sent to the university in one electronic package. The only items that can't be electronically mailed - at least, not yet - are college transcripts and outside recommendations. About two dozen other business schools, including Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth, Northwestern, the University of Texas, Tulane, Michigan State and the University of California-Davis, will accept electronic applications through the GradAdvantage Web site, which went online Aug 1. Participating institutions pay $5,500 a year for the administrative Web site software. Students pay a $12 processing fee for each application. Only MIT is so far telling its future MBAs to forget about applying if they can't go online. That's not surprising, considering the institute's reputation as a techie paradise. This is, however, the first year of the new regime, and MIT officials say they will consider granting exemptions. Still, it's hard to believe a business school candidate wouldn't have access to a computer somewhere, whether at work, a library or an Internet cafe, said Rod Garcia, Sloan's admissions director. In fact, he argued, it's easier these days for applicants to get their hands on computers than typewriters. Besides, the 3,500 who will apply this year to MIT might as well get used to computers as early as possible. The 10 to 13 percent lucky enough to be accepted to the two-year program (annual tuition: $25,800) are strongly encouraged to have their own computers, preferably laptops. Electronic college and university applications have been gaining ground in recent years. An online application program run by Peterson's, a Princeton, N.J.-based publisher of education and career information, processed close to 80,000 online applications for 1,000 undergraduate institutions last year, said Bill Cole, vice president for academic services. But experts said it's unlikely many undergraduate schools will require only online applications anytime soon. After all, it's a somewhat elitist notion to assume that every applicant has computer access, said Timothy J. McDonough, a spokesman for the American Council on Education, which represents 1,800 colleges and universities nationwide. MIT's move, meanwhile, should be no cause for U.S. Postal Service alarm. Sloan still plans to send acceptance and rejection letters the old-fashioned way. -르놔르~ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 살아가는 것이란 변화한다는 것이며, Hoon (Paul) Kim 완벽하게 되는 것은 끊임없이 변화함으로 hpkim@ALUM.MIT.EDU 이뤄지는 것이다. (전화) +1-617-354-5694 -- 김 훈, 1972~현재 http://www.shinbiro.com/~Renoir |