Universities with WWW-based admission applications?
Tom Board
the WWW to accept applications for admission. This is different from
accepting requests for registration materials - I am focused on the actual
application itself. I assume this would be a very sophisticated WWW-forms
structure. Please reply via e-mail. I will post the results which I
receive over the next couple of days. Thanks in advance for any leads you
can forward to me.
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Tom Board
Manager of User Services
Academic Computing and Network Services
t...@nwu.edu
Fred Carter
Board) wrote:
> I am interested in knowing if there are any universities which are using
> the WWW to accept applications for admission. This is different from
> accepting requests for registration materials - I am focused on the actual
> application itself. I assume this would be a very sophisticated WWW-forms
> structure. Please reply via e-mail. I will post the results which I
> receive over the next couple of days. Thanks in advance for any leads you
> can forward to me.
>
> --
> Tom Board
> Manager of User Services
> Academic Computing and Network Services
> t...@nwu.edu
I am currently investigating the same posibility w.r.t. constructing a web
site for the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs here at
Carleton University in Ottawa.
I have been informed by the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies that a
problem of authenticating applications, referrals, transcripts, etc lies
at the heart of the issue. Forms can be easily filled out and submitted
under false names. Of course, e-mail can, too - especially through www
browsers such as Netscape, etc.
A second problem is that application forms submitted in electronic format
can add to administrative headaches. They must be culled from other
queries and e-mail, grouped together, stored, manged, and in the end they
must be printed out too.
As noted above, I surveyed some university home pages this past week, and
in particular those of (graduate) professional schools of international
affairs (APSIA). Nowhere did I find _any_ www-based admission
applications. Perhaps this reflects the perceived problems mentioned
above. Else it may simply reflect the very newness of the technology -
half the sites are still using _gopher_.
Here at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, we believe
that electronic admission forms can significantly cut down on paper and
mailing costs associated with new recruitment. I will be proposing on
Monday that we include a _scanned_ image of the admission form somewhere
on our server, to be downloaded and printed out by the prospective
graduate student, filled out by hand, and submitted to the school via the
regular post.
I would be very interested to learn of your thoughts on this matter, and
to provide more commentary to you if you should so wish.
Regards,
Fred Carter
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Fred Carter
fnca...@ccs.carleton.ca
<a href = "http://www.eng.carleton.ca/fncarter/index.shtml>.</a>
The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
David Timoney
: I am interested in knowing if there are any universities which are using
: the WWW to accept applications for admission. This is different from
: accepting requests for registration materials - I am focused on the actual
: application itself. I assume this would be a very sophisticated WWW-forms
I believe the University of Washington (state) might do this. You can
check on their Web site http://www.washington.edu
As for authentification of applications, I don't see any college taking
any application on gratis, electronic or not. Hopefully the data can be
stored in a form where a simple retrieval program can integrate the data
into the college's database (having to type the info in kinda kills about
50% of the benefits of electronic applications, I'd think <g>).
Of course, this is all guesswork on my part......
Dave
david creffield
fnca...@ccs.carleton.ca "Fred Carter" writes:
> In article <tboard-1105...@teb.acns.nwu.edu>, tbo...@nwu.edu (Tom
> Board) wrote:
>
> > I am interested in knowing if there are any universities which are using
> > the WWW to accept applications for admission. This is different from
> I am currently investigating the same posibility w.r.t. constructing a web
> site for the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs here at
> Carleton University in Ottawa.
>
> I have been informed by the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies that a
> problem of authenticating applications, referrals, transcripts, etc lies
> at the heart of the issue. Forms can be easily filled out and submitted
> under false names. Of course, e-mail can, too - especially through www
> browsers such as Netscape, etc.
It's very easy to make false applications by ANY method, including
the method traditionally in use: filling in a form with a pen.
But on the whole people don't do that kind of thing. Why would they?
and if they did, the fact that the application was a dud would become
apparent during processing.
Melody Winkle
|> > > I am interested in knowing if there are any universities which are using
|> > > the WWW to accept applications for admission.
Mississippi State University is doing this ... check:
http://msuinfo.ur.msstate.edu/admissions/admissio.htm
Melody Winkle
mwi...@cac.washington.edu
Thomas Dowling
>|> > > I am interested in knowing if there are any universities which are using
>|> > > the WWW to accept applications for admission.
>Mississippi State University is doing this ... check:
>http://msuinfo.ur.msstate.edu/admissions/admissio.htm
There is online application material for a number of US universities at
http://www.petersons.com:8080/apply.html
Thomas Dowling
Networked Information Librarian, Public Services
University of Washington Libraries
tdow...@u.washington.edu
Terry Beavers
goal of the data being entered into an Oracle database, but we are still
largely working on the forms here at USF.
The issue of authentication is somewhat false - the same issue occurs
with applications submitted by paper!! We are more concerned with the
issue of securing the information from snoopers outside the office -
something we generally leave to the USPS by snail mail. I expect we use a
'secure' server to help address that problem - although the individual
will need to use a similarly secure client to make this even nominally
meaningful security.
So, you can look at our draft documents if you wish. We don't allow
browsing on our server so you need these hrefs:
draft graduate admissions form
http://rmit.rmit.usf.edu/usfgrad/gradfrm.htm
draft undergraduate admissions form
http://rmit.rmit.usf.edu/enroll/ugradapp.htm