The letter program is officially called the Personalized Admissions Project. It was launched in 2021-22 school year by Arizona State University. The university sent acceptance letters to 1,453 ...

Individual schools and school systems have also rolled out similar initiatives to broaden their reach. Last spring, the State University of New York sent automatic acceptance letters to 125,000 ...

And soon, as a new school year comes around, high school seniors will learn this lesson quickly, as it'll take only one short line in a college admissions letter (or, as is common now, an e-mail ...