MIT goes really high tech

Music schools ask for MP3 files of students' playing for consideration. Does that count?

Yeah, I suppose it does. The whole education experience has changed so radically since I was at university. We actually had to go to the library to take out books, not access them on a website. I was taking an evening course at the doctoral level at UMass-Boston about 10 years ago or thereabouts and remember being amazed when the prof said we could send our term papers to her e-mail address if that was more convenient than bringing in actual typed copies. Me, at that point I was still typing my term papers on an IBM Selecrtic typewriter, wouldn't have known how to e-mail a whole thesis:) Had just acquired my first computer (a used Mac) and was learning how to access AOL as my ISP to get online.

My son is applying for colleges this year. All his paperwork including his letters of recommendation was done online. The had to send in the names of this references and an email address and they received instructions on how to submit their letters. All the essays, etc were online as well.