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THE INDEPENDENT TO UNCOVER NEWSPAPER SERVING THE TRUTH NOTRE DAME AND AND REPORT SAINT Mary’s IT ACCURATELY V OLUME 50, ISSUE 79 | THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2016 | NDSMCOBSERVER.COM U niversity releases early acceptances For the first time ever, students received an electronic decision instead of letters in the mail By KAYLA MULLEN their social media network that A ssociate News Editor they were admitted, they text each other, they communicate W hen the University of Notre in so many ways. Nowadays, stu- Dame released its Restricted dents are announcing their deci- Early Action acceptances to 1,610 sion, and other kids are waiting students this past December, for the mail, so we literally had something was notably different hundreds of anxious calls, wor- — rather than issuing their usual ried that they didn’t get a letter blue and gold acceptance letters, or that they assumed they were Notre Dame welcomed students turned down since they didn’t home with a celebratory web get a letter right away. page, Associate Vice President “It created a lot of anxiety, so of Undergraduate Enrollment with the U.S. mail service not as Donald Bishop said. consistent, we talked to students “The year before, in regular ac- … about this. They said, ‘Look, tion, we found the U.S. mail ser- everybody else does it electroni- vice has become less dependable cally, and while it is great to have on timing — they’re getting there, the Notre Dame surprise in the but they’re taking longer,” Bishop said. “ … Students now post on see ADMITS PAGE 4 LUCY DU | The Observer
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