July 13, 2001
Online Medical-School Application Becomes a Nightmare for Students
After several nights spent wrestling with his online medical-school application, Amit Sachdeva was getting used to the routine: Stay awake until 2 a.m., when the cyber-traffic slows down; plod through a few pages until an error message appears; and get booted off the system. Then try several times to log on again and begin the process over, night after night.
Estimated time for completion? "I'd say roughly 24 to 36 hours," the weary Yale University student recalls. "It was incredibly
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