You've been e-ccepted to school

Careers and Colleges, March, 2002

Constantly checking your mailbox for a thick envelope containing your college acceptance? Better check your email inbox, too. Increasingly, colleges are notifying applicants of their decision via e-mail. (Many schools often follow up with a traditional snail mail letter.) The University of Dayton, Northwestern, Tufts, and Rutgers are just some of the schools opting for the cyber route.

But there still may be some bugs to work out. Last January, dozens of e-mail notifications Harvard sent to applicants were erased when they were interpreted by AOL as junk mail.