<p>Does anybody know if many students' internet connections are affected by the earthquake in Taiwan? Mine is...right now a friend of mine is posting this for me. I can't even enter the common app website; someone else will have to submit it for me...how timely!</p>
<p>I think it's ok to miss the deadline if you've been affected by the earthquake. Columbia has stated so on its website and I'm sure many other colleges will feel the same way.
Just contact them if you can. Does you phone or faxmachine still work?</p>
<p>I can totally relate. Even though I am the class of 2012, half of the college web sites won't load. Other than Harvard and Princeton, few college web sites (and especially not the Common App) load at the moment. I suppose you should have planned ahead and not procastinated on your application. Now if you're application is late to be submitted we know it is because you left it to the last minute. MIT, for instance, has stated that they will not extend their deadline for this very reason (they stated that "what if the server was down on the 31, should we extend the deadline then?") as another example.</p>
<p>I think people have right to wait until the last moment to prevent any error in the application or to improve essays the most they can. Those at the MIT might be plain happy of not having to see as many asian applicats, hehe.</p>
<p>Wow, your comment really does reveal your ignorance. MIT has, arguably, the largest body of Asian students of any highly-selective college in the U.S.A.</p>
<p>Your comment reveals your lack of sense of humor (or mine). Of course I know they have a large body of Asian students, thus I humorously suggested that they might be tired of them.
Quote from the "I wish I weren't Asian" post:
"One Korean student, applying from a top prep school, got pegged at MIT as 'yet another textureless math grind'.”
So yes, mine was a very bad joke....</p>