The new Common Application, which launches tomorrow, can’t have a repeat of last year, when it was full of glitches and crashed frequently, if it hopes to maintain its hold on the college application world.
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The Common Application, which allows students to file college applications electronically, has promised that when it launches its new version tomorrow, things will be different: no more crashes, no more endless loading screens, no more frantic, angry teenagers. And that better be the case, because if those same glitches are repeated it could spell the beginning of the end for the Common App's near-monopoly on the electronic college application system.
A year ago, on the first day of what was being called the "Next Generation Common App" thousands of anxious high school seniors logged onto the new system, only to have it promptly crash — and that was only the beginning of a disastrous year for the country's largest electronic college application system. It was plagued by so many glitches, crashes, and timeouts that it forced dozens of colleges to push back deadlines and waive application fees. Payments weren't processed; recommendations couldn't be uploaded; essays on meaningful life experiences vanished.
Common App's executive director of 10 years, who had led the non-profit to its near-monopoly status, was fired as a result. The mass panic created by the technical problems even spawned its own Twitter account, @CommonAppProbs, and thousands of angry Tweets from teenagers.
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