URGENT: Caltech crisis

<p>The CommonApp supplement for Caltech says:</p>

<p>"Research (optional):
If you have written a research paper or report on a math, science, or engineering project, you are encouraged to submit a copy of your work to be considered along with your application. Papers should be submitted as a PDF file and e-mailed to <a href="mailto:papers@admissions.caltech.edu">papers@admissions.caltech.edu</a>. To assure consideration, papers should be submitted no later than the application deadline."</p>

<p>I marked that I am going to submit a research paper, but when I just tried to send it to the provided address, it seems to have failed:</p>

<p>"<a href="mailto:postmaster@ad.caltech.edu">postmaster@ad.caltech.edu</a>
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
<a href="mailto:papers@admissions.caltech.edu">papers@admissions.caltech.edu</a>
Final-Recipient: rfc822;<a href="mailto:papers@admissions.caltech.edu">papers@admissions.caltech.edu</a>
Action: failed
Status: 5.2.2
X-Display-Name: Admissions Research Papers Submissions"</p>

<p>Other people have given similar reports.
The deadline is tomorrow at midnight. What should I do?! I sent a message to the office of undergraduate admissions that had the paper attached and that explained the situation. Will this be enough?</p>

<p>Really? No one? Please help!</p>

<p>I’m having the same problem… :&lt;/p>

<p>Their given email address doesn’t work, and you asked them what to do. I’m pretty sure it’ll work out fine, and there’s certainly nothing more you can do.</p>

<p>That’s what happens when you wait until the last minute :)</p>

<p>It’s a test. Caltech wants to see if their applicants can solve a basic POP3 server error. </p>

<p>Seriously though, Caltech’s mailbox is just full. It will probably sort itself out and the deadline will probably extended if they didn’t receive it in time.</p>

<p>^LOL good one. </p>

<p>Gee the mailbox is full because there are too many RESEARCH PAPERS? with latexed pdf that’s only like, what, 0.5mb?? that just scared me a bit.</p>

<p>Well, considering that for almost all of the year that particular address is useless, it makes sense that they wouldn’t allocate much space to it. All it takes is for them to get an unexpectedly large number of applications, which I hear they did.</p>

<p>Thank you for your email. Due to the holiday break, the email address <a href=“mailto:papers@admissions.caltec”>papers@admissions.caltec</a>h is currently full. We are currently processing submissions to clear out the inbox. Please email your submission again to the <a href=“mailto:papers@admissions.caltech.edu”>papers@admissions.caltech.edu</a> address later this afternoon or tomorrow.</p>

<p>what the crap man…I am still trying it no response…</p>

<p>Just try again tomorrow or in the next few days… admissions people are understanding and aren’t going to fault you if there was a problem on their end.</p>

<p>I had this problem too. I tried submitting it again today about 5 hours ago and it worked. Problem solved?</p>

<p>I sent <a href=“mailto:ugadmissions@caltech.edu”>ugadmissions@caltech.edu</a> an email stating the error, and included my attachments. They replied back Monday afternoon (sent on Sunday) said their <a href=“mailto:papers@admissions.caltech.edu”>papers@admissions.caltech.edu</a> was full, but said they would add my attachments in my email to ugadmissions to my application. Basically: if <a href=“mailto:papers@admissions.caltech.edu”>papers@admissions.caltech.edu</a> bounces, send it to the undergraduate admissions email and state the error, and you should be okay.</p>

<p>Phew!</p>