<p>From a Yahoo News article </p>
<p>"Credit card and mortgage companies promise customers an answer "while you wait" on loan applications. Now, more and more colleges are doing the same visiting high schools and letting applicants know their admissions fate right on the spot."</p>
<p>An interesting way to approach the college application process.</p>
<p>That seeems like a good idea to me. They should have more of those around the United States.</p>
<p>Jerod</p>
<p>yea, a very good idea.</p>
<p>Jerod</p>
<p>whoa is that for real?
I think our generation is addicted to instant everything. But I kind of like that they spend some time thinking...although in reality, your decision is made in an hour or so.</p>
<p>One or two local colleges hold instant decision days at my D's HS. To have 45 willing to do that is amazing.</p>
<p>applied online to our state university and said that his decision was back to him in five minutes! I find this prospect interesting. ~berurah</p>
<p>i went to a college prep school that had a lot of colleges visiting to offer on-the-spot decisions, since most kids are likely to be accepted anyway. i think it was because our school is in a major urban area with lots of highly qualified minority applicants (our school's acceptance rate ensures the best of the best applicants from all over the city studying there).</p>
<p>Don't know who's doing this, but I expect it would be a pretty powerful technique for attacting students. Back in the dark ages when we were being recruited for our first jobs out of college, the cycle was sort of like most colleges today. We did an on campus interview, some of us went for an office visit and we waited for offer letters. My firm broke the mold and made us offers sitting there in the partner-in-charge's office. </p>
<p>Not many things have felt better than understanding that you meet their qualifications to the point where they weren't going to worry about other candidates: we were in.</p>
<p>I don't know, I'd rather the adcom know more about me than just numbers.</p>
<p>It's interesting, because I used to live in Barrington, right where that happens.</p>
<p>I don't think I like that at all. It obviously has advantages in certain situations, but I don't think it would serve a college looking to build a class that is a community and not just a group of people very well.</p>
<p>The only drawback that I see is that some kids might end the process there and then, when in fact they might do better to continue the search a bit longer.</p>