Hi. The website keeps saying, "Well that wasn’t supposed to happen
The system is truly awesome in many ways, but clearly this isn’t one of them."
It won’t submit! Is anyone else having this problem?
I didn’t have this problem but I would keep trying! Try disconnecting from the internet and reconnecting then submit it. It sounds silly, but sometimes things like this actually work. Good luck!
Turns out, I needed to re-save every part of the application, and then it would send. I messaged the MIT people and that’s what they told me to do, and it worked.
thanks for your help haha @ProspectiveAerospaceEngineeringStudent
Update: Found this on the MIT RA Q&A Thread:
NEW If you are having trouble submitting Part 2, please go to the bottom of each page of the document, select save and continue through the entire document and resubmit. We find this fixes most submission problems.
Hopefully anyone having this problem sees this thread!
appreciate your help @ProspectiveAerospaceEngineeringStudent
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@ProspectiveAerospaceEngineeringStudent Didn’t work for me, tried it twice. Any other ideas?
MIT Admissions also made it clear that submitting tomorrow is not a problem, and will not be considered late. Good luck @thosa1
Can anyone send? the part 2 think keeps popping up and persists past deadline already.
My son received the same message starting at 10:30. He wrote an email to MIT explaining the situation. I believe the response he received was automated, but it said that MIT had received part 2 of his app. This email arrived 90 minutes after his first submission attempt.
After sending an email to MIT admissions, I just received an email stating that a lot of people have been sending emails about part 2 of the application being unable to be sent. They said that the application can be sent either today or tomorrow. However, if anyone has the same problem as me, make sure you guys e-mail MIT admissions to let them know about your situation.
I emailed MIT about being unable to submit part 2 and was also told that submitting on Jan 2 is acceptable, but I’m still worried. I removed all dashes,colons, and semicolons from my essays and clicked through the Save-and-Continues, but I still can’t submit. Are the rest of you guys just waiting for some indeterminable amount of time to try again within Jan 2? Basically, I’m worried that even with the extended time it won’t work.
@ehhhhhhhh23 @Bakasworld @Tan2610
Have you been able to send yet?
I submitted on Dec 31 and had no such problems, but as long as you explain the circumstances to MIT your application won’t be affected.
Log into your MIT account to see if they received it. My son continued to receive the same message every time he tried to upload, but Part 2 now appears as submitted in his My MIT (or whatever the site is called).