Missie Mills
Reporter
More applicants to Milligan College are applying online, according to David Mee, vice president for enrollment management.
“Approximately 50 percent of the fall 2004 applications we have received have been submitted via the Web,” Mee said. This is an increase over last fall, when only 29 percent applied online.
Mee called the recent decline in traditional paper application and rise in online application a “reflection of society,” and said, “We are an increasingly Internet-savvy generation.”
Freshman Russell Roberts applied to Milligan online last year. He said that it was much more convenient than applying through the mail.
“It not only removes the need to go to the post office,” said Mee, “but the application is received by the Admissions Office seconds after being submitted.”
Because Admissions receives the application instantly, applicants find out if they have been admitted sooner.
Mee stressed that once any application is received, whether traditional paper or online, the “data processing and follow up is the same.”
When a student applies online, he or she must still mail in the church reference form, school reference form, ACT scores and high school transcript.
“The only difference is in the (application) form itself,” said Mee. “Everything else is in the mail.”
Mee attributes this year’s 20 percent increase in applications to the efforts of the admissions staff.
The increase, Mee said, is directly tied to the call center, which in eight weeks has reached thousands of prospectives.
The admissions staff’s goal is to have more than 900 students next fall in preparation for the long-term goal of having over 1,000 students by 2006.