<p>Is it better to send my whole application including common app through mail service or doing it online.
As I am seeing many of my friends doing it online, but I find it better to be mailed. But does have any risk or does the colleges prefer it online.
Anyone who has mailed through postal help me........
does it really matter whether I am sending it by mail or online.</p>
<p>Schools prefer you to send as much of your applications as possible online. That way, your application is in their database and they don’t have to scan or enter your information. It saves them time and money, and makes your application more accurate.</p>
<p>Wow, I can’t even fathom why anyone would prefer to send something snail mail when the online option exists.</p>
<p>You sound like you enjoy waiting in long lines at the post office to fill out the certified mail forms, and then drumming your fingers while the USPS takes two weeks to get your package to its destination.</p>
<p>And that’s the ideal situation. The norm would be “application package? What application package? We never received it.”</p>
<p>Sorry, I don’t mean to be flip. Let’s just say my experience with the USPS is not very good. Plant me firmly in the camp who prefers online.</p>
<p>Send it online. As Chedva explained, the clerks in the admissions office scan each and every form into their computer anyway. Your file will be electronic by the time the admissions officer see it, so why not expedite the process and send it online? </p>
<p>You sound as though you are international, therefore you should be very worried about all the postal systems your package would have to survive, should you send it snail mail.</p>