<p>My daughter’s has timed out twice at 60 minutes.</p>
<p>Has anyone been successful? I’ve tried IE, firefox and chrome. This is frustrating.</p>
<p>Very disappointing a great waste of my DD’s time. Hopefully the folks at the Common App get this fixed soon. She tried IE, Firefox, and Chrome. Nothing.</p>
<p>It’s loaded successfully a couple of times for me, but it seems to get worse as the day goes on. I was finally able to submit my application around 5. Now onto the essay…</p>
<p>Log out of common app and clear the cache and then go through the pdf generating steps. If you get a blank screen then on top right hit settings and click on the negative sign to zoom out. My d and I are finding it works on one laptop and then it doesn’t and then we switch laptops and then it works. try not to be too frustrated. be sure to save the pdf and print off a copy. I told one college that if I have to fed ex a paper copy of pdf I was doing to to make sure my dd submitted timely.</p>
<p>Hmm, maybe try restarting your computer after you update Adobe?</p>
<p>Actually, idk it’s not working for me either anymore…</p>
<p>Restarting my computer, switching browsers, and updating Adobe all did nothing. Just in case it has something to do with the amount of traffic on the site right now, I’m going to try again late at night when less people are likely to be up.</p>
<p>I’ve been trying for 3 hours. My session has been timed out, I logged back in to try again, and still NOTHING.</p>
<p>Well, it got better. I’m no longer getting “generating” messages. Now I’m getting Service Unavailable because I can’t even log in. My deadline is soon, this isn’t funny anymore.</p>
<p>It really isn’t funny. I’ve been having issues with the Common App this whole time, but this is by far the worst thing that has happened. It is absolutely ridiculous, and I am extremely nervous right now.</p>
<p>Okay, I’m finally getting it to work occasionally now. It still has the Chrome glitch where you have to zoom in to see the PDF, but at least it’s loading.</p>
<p>What did you do?? I need this to work.</p>
<p>Reloaded a bunch of times so that I could finally log in, and the PDF took a minute or two, but it loaded. Except my essay formatting was completely screwed up, so I have to do this again. Ughh I hope it works again.</p>
<p>It finally worked!! </p>
<p>What was wrong with your essay format?</p>
<p>The spacing was off, but I managed to fix it.</p>
<p>How? Because my essay is just showing up as one big blob of words with no space between paragraphs at all.</p>
<p>Press enter so that in the box, there is a blank line between each paragraph. </p>
<p>…so common app crashed right after I paid. I got the confirmation email that payment was sent, but that was terrifying…</p>
<p>Did you get back to the signature page?</p>
<p>Eventually, yes, after several tries.</p>