University of California officials are extending the admissions application deadline after a computer slowdown blocked some students from filing their applications on time.
A university admissions official says the glitch prevented some filers from submitting their applications by Monday night’s deadline.
The new deadline is 11:59 p.m. Wednesday.
Susan Wilbur, UC’s director of undergraduate admissions, doesn’t know how many students might have been blocked by the slowdown, but says about two-thirds of the applicants wait until a week before the deadline to file.
Wilbur says through Tuesday evening about 129,000 applications for freshman and transfer students had been received. That’s up from last year’s 126,700 applications.
