Tradition of waiting for college acceptance letters erodes

Wednesday, January 30, 2002

Jillian Alexander felt the joy of being admitted to Johnson & Wales University even before completing her application. The teen-ager simply gave her transcript to a recruiter from the private school in Providence, R.I., and soon heard those golden words: "You've been accepted."

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