<p>See above.</p>
<p>Do colleges print out all the applications submitted online?
Do the admissions readers each have laptops to read the applications?</p>
<p>Or do they do something completely different?</p>
<p>Old fashioned way. Print out and organize in folders ona day-by-day
basis.</p>
<p>I just saw where UVA said they are reading all applications on-line for the first time this year. That sounded to me like no hard copies.</p>
<p>Yeah I heard that they print out multiple copies, stack them up with other credentials like teacher recs and scores, read them altogether at the end.</p>
<p>print out 10 char</p>
<p>if they have to print them out, then why is it advantageous to submit them online? j/w</p>
<p>because they can login into common app, press print, then a couple hundred thousand pages gets printed.</p>
<p>no opening mail, everything is complete and organized, in alphabetical order most likely.</p>
<p>Sending it via mail causes small risks such as the application going missing out on the street, the post office losing it, etc. It's also a much longer and complicated process, like a person from Admission has to go receive it, open up the glued envelopes. Online submission makes things much less complicated for the Adcoms since they're not gonna be flooded by a sudden plethora of post mails flying around everywhere in the office during November and January.</p>
<p>I wonder if alphabetical order has anything to do with admissions...</p>
<p>Some schools use a point system so they probably evaluate points based on alphabetical order, then allocate placement based on points.</p>