<p>Many schools "strongly encourage" students to submit the online app. I have no problem with this as they place good restrictions on length, make everything look neat and typed, are easy to follow, save, not easily lost, etc.</p>
<p>The one problem is a lot of times they don't give you a lot of space to talk about your ECs, just a quick 5-word description (no exaggeration here) like "started varsity on school basketball team" and # of hours in a separate box. Some ECs warrant a little bit more explanation I think...or does the app being formatted that way mean they really don't care?</p>