One should keep a Xeroxed copy of each application. The student should be careful to ascertain that each part of the application packet is sent to the correct address. Sometimes financial aid forms, for example, are sent to a different office. MAT and GRE scores will be sent by the testing services to schools requested on the application forms. Requests for additional copies may be made in writing to the previously listed address accompanied by appropriate fees for each additional institution.
Letters of recommendation are to be sent out directly by faculty members.
Students should check to see that this has been done. If the student has not received acknowledgement of the receipt of application material within a reasonable amount of time, then a telephone call for verification may be necessary. April Depending upon their application deadlines, graduate schools begin to send out letters of acceptance around April 15. The student is usually given a period of two weeks in which to make his decision. It is sometimes difficult to make an intelligent choice since you may be on the waiting list of a more preferred school and on the acceptance list of a less preferred institution.