Some schools have stopped mailing out official acceptance letter.

[wifey99999999]

Instead, they send official notification to applicants (accepted or rejected) via emails only.

I think it's kind of cheap part of the schools to send out notification to accepted applicants via email only because the application fee is expensive (about $70), and they refuse to send first class mail for just a dollar of postage fee?

I mean, I can understand if they just want to send out email to rejected applicants, but if they really want to show that they really want to take as many as accepted students as possible, shouldn't they send out offical letter in addition to email notification?

[zilch]

email is faster than snail mail and more reliable. I personally prefer email.

The cost of mailing is not just the postage, envelopes, the actual letter, whatever other materials they send, the labor it takes to put the packet together all cost money and time.

[wifey99999999]

email is faster than snail mail and more reliable. I personally prefer email.

The cost of mailing is not just the postage, envelopes, the actual letter, whatever other materials they send, the labor it takes to put the packet together all cost money and time.

I don't mean "packet", but I mean some kind of official letter with official seal on it. That only costs one piece of paper, which is probably just 2% of application fee to mail the letter.

I prefer both email (for quicker notification) and postal mail (for official acceptance).... why not do them both?

[zilch]

probably because the economy has people everywhere trying to save as much money as possible. I know a few schools took >30% hits to their endowments at the latest downturn. I'm honestly surprised that application fees haven't gone up, I paid $60-90 per school back when I was applying for undergrad 5 years ago.