When the mate rial arrives, an admissions secretary clicks on the appropriate button and the online database is updated. If the material does not arrive, automatic reminders can be sent to applicants and referees. When the file is complete, a judgment is made. Formal a cceptance letters are sent by post while rejections are handled electronically. An example of admission query processing is shown in Fig.
Administrative users are also able to update user information.
This program puts user requests for prospectuses and application forms directly into a database. We provide a list of frequently asked questions, downloadable application forms and remind people that everything in our prospectuses is available online. This helps reduce traffic to those only with very specific questions or with very slow network connections. Although the system we have implemented was designed with the needs of economics in mind, it should be more generally applicable. The Netscape LiveWire environment in which it is developed is available on a wide variety of hardware platforms, including Windows NT on Intel and Digital Alpha machines, SGI Irix, HP-UX, IBM AIX and Sun Solaris.