NYTimes article on glitches with Common App

blueiguana
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:30:46 +0000

YPTmom-
When you upload the essay there should be a button on the bottom right to ‘continue’. This then moves you to the next section ‘Submit…’ (I’m going by memory here). Click back up to the written essay section and select ‘edit’. Now you can go in and adjust any formatting errors that occurred when you copied the essay over. S3 paid close attention to paragraph breaks and anywhere it looked like a hard return where there wasn’t supposed to be. HTH

As for the stressing, it may seem like eternity but you/your student really doesn’t have long to wait for early Dec. My 2011 grad kept us hanging until mid April, and it looks like S3 may drag us into April as well. Once everything is submitted and credentials are received it does get easier to sit back and get back to normal life. Right now it’s all encompassing because of the process and the glitches with the CA. It doesn’t last forever. Next year we’ll be missing them terribly, wherever they land, and would give anything for another week even with these crazy apps.