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After you’ve applied to an institution, your application and supplemental materials (transcripts, letters of reference, and personal statements) are reviewed by the institution. Of course, smarty that you are, you’re accepted. You receive notice of your acceptance via email; however, some institutions follow up with a more formal acceptance letter via standard US mail. If for any reason you’re not accepted, don’t panic: Would-be students may not be accepted for any of several reasons, many of which are merely administrative. In Chapter 7 we discuss in more detail what to do after you’ve been accepted and describe strategies for moving forward if your application is rejected.

After you've been accepted, you must enroll in courses. This process is also completed using the web. Most institutions, even those teaching face-to-face, require students to log on to a website where they access the institution’s course catalog and register for classes they want. These sites also provide you with a list of the required textbooks chosen for each class. If you don’t know which class or classes you should take first or in what order you should take them, contact your academic advisor to work out these details.

Imagine that you’re partway between registering and actually starting class. What’s left to do? Get oriented! Any decent school provides you with an orientation experience. It may be a series of prerecorded tutorials to guide you through common technology processes or an invitation to attend a live webinar to see and experience the same. Orientation in its simplest form may consist of your receiving a document with printed procedures. See Chapter 7 for full details.