For online app, why PAPER Student/Parent Signature?

<p>From the EMory Website:
Selection Timeline
All nominees will learn whether or not they become semifinalists in late January via the U.S. Postal Service. From a pool of approximately 350 semifinalists, Emory will select and notify scholarship finalists in late February. Emory will bring these finalists to campus for interviews which usually take place in late March. </p>

<p>Unless you apply ED, you do not hear until January.....But yes, you are correct in that if you are named semifinalist, you are admitted either way.....</p>

<p>the student signature is ridiculous, cuz i signed a early decision and mailed it to them, but apparently it doesnt say the same thing as this signature page, so i had to fax that yesterday mornin</p>