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IUPUI is the joint campus between Indiana University and Purdue University in Indianapolis.
It's the third largest campus within the state of Indiana. We have about 30,000 students.
So as the Director of Undergraduate Admissions at IUPUI my job is really to
recruit the students that make up the undergraduate student body.
Before we started using Parchment receiver we were still receiving more than 80 percent of
our high school transcripts by paper, which meant that
we have to rely on the U.S. Post Office we have to
rely on the schools to send it out we have to make sure that the paper gets associated to
a file, a broad list of what sounds very simple
but when you receive 27,000 applications a year, becomes a very massive endeavor.
There's nothing like an admissions office during admissions processing season
when you get literally bags of mail that somebody has to
open and deal with, that's all gone thanks to Parchment and Parchment Receiver.
It allows us to suddenly become a very seamless
and really meet more of the expectations of the general population,
which is to make college applications simpler, easier,
and more efficient.
The other thing that it really helped us do last year was become much more proactive in requesting
those transcripts, so we could not just tell a student go to your
high school counselor and request a transcript, we could actually say, "OK
It's time for you to request your transcript, don't forget to do that, here's the link on how you can
do that," and then we could actually go into the system and
monitor whether or not the student had sent it, whether or not the school had approved it
those sorts of things, so it becomes much more of a
means for us to not just eliminate the
mail, the weight in the mail andthe opening of the mail
but it's also become a way for us to really provide better communication
because they just don't know if we've got their transcript yet.
That's all taken care of, so it's been a really nice transition for us.
I would say that almost half of our transcripts, if not more, came in through Parchment, this year, electronically.