<p>Sorry to be obnoxious. But…</p>
<p>I’m preparing to submit my application. I filled out the supplemental “chemistry” essays. When I hit “print application” to preview it, and viewed the “HTML” option, everything looked fine. BUT when I viewed the pdf, none of my responses to the 3 chemistry essays were there!!! What’s the problem??</p>
<p>scroll down, it puts them at the very last pages. At least, that's how it showed all of my essays for my application preview.</p>
<p>I love to see so many people mentioning chemistry on CC.</p>
<p>It makes my heart a little warmer.</p>
<p>@modestmelody: LOL! I bet you're all warm and fuzzy inside now...;)</p>
<p>it's definitely a theme! the day my daughter did the 'science and engineering' tour at Brown, 5 of the 6 students on the tour (this was in June, low-season for tours) were prospective Chem majors.... she was happy to see the new building, too</p>
<p>I gave the tours all summer. I was the male tour guide for your daughter almost certainly, Ailey.</p>
<p>it's a small world, modestmelody :) I remember now, both the tour guides were also chem majors, which is why I was struck by the whole picture...</p>
<p>daveb, I promise it is NOT there. I only have four pages-- the first two with essays, work experience, etc. and the last two are the Activities/Awards document.</p>
<p>hmmm.... call/email Brown, but I don't know if you will hear back from them. It's very busy for them now. You may just have to submit and then rush deliver the essays again on paper to make sure, with a note explaining why.</p>
<p>Try accessing it from a different computer - or try deleting the cookies (Tools, Internet Options, Delete Cookies) on your computer. Something similar happened to my daughter last year and I think it was resolved by deleting cookies.</p>
<p>I deleted the cookies last night, at my brother's recommendation, but to no avail.</p>
<p>I did write to tech support, and received a reply three minutes later! I was told that even though the essays might not appear on the PDF, they should be saved to Brown's database (but then why does it say the PDF is what the admissions officers will see???). -_- STRESSS.</p>
<p>Better email Brown, and as backup, send them a copy of the full personal staetment part of your app with the essays, explaining why you are dual-submitting. I think it's worth some possible overkill here, rather than relying on technology that doesn't seem to be working right. </p>
<p>(As a former software engineer, I am very suspicous when these anomalies happen, and in fact advised my daughter against Brown online submission because it's Brown specific and therefore won't have the same level of testing and usage as the common app site....which used to have plenty of bugs itself, not so long ago.)</p>
<p>If you filled it out and you see it on the online app, it's there. I'm sure that what you see on the PDF form is not how it will actually look, because if you look at an area like ACT scores, following their format for submitting the score (##E/##R/##M/##S/##C ##W) will lead to a cutoff writing score number when you look at the app in the PDF view. Other things, like the essays being sent to the bottom where there is ample space alloted when the question is first given, show that obviously the PDF file is not the exact printout. I think you are safe.</p>
<p>But again, if you are worried, do as I said. Mail the essays in that you don't see on the PDF with an attached note explaining your situation... And it would probably be wisest to overnight it.</p>
<p>Anyone else think it's surreal that they start reading applications tomorrow?</p>