On 2010.12.24 11:11 AM, Cory Myers wrote:
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 02:19:03PM -0600, Eli Naeher wrote:
With Common Application, Many Find a Technical Difficulty in Common, Too
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/education/23college.html
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When he would follow the program’s instructions to execute a “print
preview” of his answers — which would show him the actual version that
an admissions officer would see, as opposed to the raw
work-in-progress on his screen — his responses were invariably cut off
at the margin, in midsentence or even midword.
I'm pretty sure I was rejected from a summer-study program two years ago
because their custom online application, like the Common App, truncated
input---but, unlike the Common App, there was no print-preview I could
check. I found out only after my application was "confirmed" by e-mail.
Reminds me of the old OSCON talk submission system. My carefully formatted
and aligned text would have all consecutive spaces stripped town to a single
space (ie. it was mangled via an HTML renderer) before sending off to them.
And this is submitting to a high technology conference run by a technical book
publisher.
Fortunately, I'm so awesome it never lost me a talk. :)
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