Applications for Colleges Clog System

Applications for Colleges Clog System By TAMAR LEWIN, NYTimes, 12/31/08
It is crunch time for college applications — and for the computer system that handles the flood of last-minute applications . . . Within moments the slowdown showed up on College Confidential, a Web site where students share their worries. At 6:30, a student posted: “What are we supposed to do? I can’t fill anything out.” Minutes later, another wrote: “This is SO not cool.”