Live Breaking News & Updates on College Application Founder Joshuaj Reiter

 
The initial early application deadline for campuses including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Georgia Institute of Technology came and went yesterday, and hundreds of students missed it.
Not because they were procrastinating (at least, not on Monday night), but because system-crashing technical glitches in the online Common Application continued to plague students (and their parents) who’ve been struggling to apply to college.
The issues stem from a system relaunch that took place and first caused technical problems in August. As the Oct. 15 deadline approached, some applicants paid the fee, then didn’t get a submit button (then paid a second time, only to have the same problem). Others made it all the way to the “print preview” stage, then got the spinning wheel of death. Others had full portions of essays deleted or couldn t submit documents. Still others couldn’t even log on to the system. ....

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