<p>its not that cool or important-but kind of interesting</p>
<p>The Common Application set a new single-day record on December 31, 2010, when students submitted 127,175 applications. Factor in supplements and school forms, and the online system processed 3.5 submissions per second on that day. As of January 1, applicants had submitted 1,809,193 applications, almost surpassing the total volume for 2009-10. Despite this surge in applications, requests for support are down 5% over last year. Moreover, in the final week of December, anyone requesting support had to wait, on average, only 11.5 minutes for an initial response from the Support Team.</p>