I finished the student contact application on Friday evening. It will create a list of students based on certain met criteria, such as admit code, decision, status, major, ethnicity, address, gpa, test scores, high school or community college attended, even an individual. Since it's pulling data from banner tables across a database link, it's a little on the slow side, but it all works. We'll need to create a csv file from the students created to upload to a company that can send out emails, rather then send them out ourselves. This will help keep us off spam lists and ensure our emails continue to be delivered.
I'm currently looking into cooleremail, but it looks like it's all web-based, and so would require upload of the email list each time admissions would want to send out an email to a different group of students. This isn't very practical, so I'm still looking at options. Plus it would cost $$.
