Yes, the Common App seems to be down, and yes, Cornell is allowing applications until January 8th

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Edits: 1/4/2021 12:14am EST: Yale seems to be aware of the crash of yesterday and is okay with late apps being submitted ASAP. No word on when the exact cutoff for “ASAP” is.

1/3/2021 2:20am EST: Stanford has extended their deadline until January 3rd, 11:59pm PST.

1/3/2021 1:24am EST: Common App seems to be working again. However, no official announcement of its working status has been made.

1/3/2021 12:44am EST: Common App has acknowledged the problem: https://mobile.twitter.com/CommonApp/status/1345605770042347520

If you’d like to post about the Common App being down, please do so here. If you hear about any last minute school deadline extensions, post in this thread as well.

If a school is not listed, then they have not announced an extension to their deadline.

Cornell link: http://blogs.cornell.edu/admissions/2020/12/21/a-note-to-regular-decision-applicants-from-the-director-of-admissions/

“If an application arrives to us before and by January 8, students do not need to contact us and they will not need to request a formal extension.”

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If you’d like to panic about the crash across multiple platforms, feel free to join the r/ApplyingToCollege Discord server at ApplyingToCollege

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Yo if everyone could just log off and let me specifically submit, that’d be greatly appreciated lmao

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Don’t get me wrong, my odds of being accepted to Yale were already 0, but not being able to even submit my application solidifies that :pensive_face::victory_hand:

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Couldn’t submit Yale or Cornell :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: