<p>After my daughter's printed application for a summer program was hopelessly lost in the mail this past spring, I have a different take on submitting things onlline. I think it is a good idea. You can still print out a copy "just in case" and to proof before you send, but with online your application doesn't have the danger of getting directed to the wrong place and, in most cases, you get a confirmation back saying that it has been received. Yes, you can get the post office or UPS to say they have delivered a package, but that only confirms it has been delivered to the CAMPUS, not the specific person it should go to. (In my daughter's case, the post office said the package with her application package, which included her transcript and recommendations had been delivered - it had, but not to admissions. It was TWO weeks past the deadline before admissions tracked the package down --- it had been delivered, and had sat, in a classroom building totally unrelated to admissions. No one had thought to bring it over to admissions during the three weeks since its delivery. An online application would have gone DIRECTLY to admissions with no middle point.)</p>
<p>My daughter's guidance counselor has advised us to submit whatever can be submitted online.</p>