Bugs Delay Web-Based Applications for 115 Medical Schools

Prospective medical students had to wait a month longer than usual this spring to receive their 2002 medical-school applications.

That's because some bugs were discovered in the new Web-based application being offered this year by the American Medical College Application Service.

Instead of receiving paper forms on April 1, students had to wait until May 1, when the Web version became available. But the following day a hardware failure made the application inaccessible again.

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