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>> it can be stressful knowing they're having technical problems. i'm sure i'll get through it. >> login was unsuccessful. >> reporter: common app estimates this year about 800,000 students will submit millions of pleks to more than 500 schools. from alaska pacific university to the university of north carolina at chapel hill and even harvard. common app was supposed to make an already stressful college application process easier. >> the kids who are applying want to make sure their applications get in in a timely manner and look good. so far they're having problems and it's stressing them out...

Days of applying to college. the stresses, i remember it as if it were yesterday. right now, as schools across the country wrap up their application processes, many students are panicking, wondering if their applications made it to college at all. that is because this website, very, very popular among lots of student here, it's in meltdown. multiple glitches crippling this supposedly streamlined process. cnn explains. >> every time she's tried to logon to common app this week -- >> it says there's no account with this e-mail. >> maria says she's gotten an error message, keeping her off the sit...

Missing in this country. when students with the capacity, the drive and desire are unable to meet dreams because of money. mara, let me go to you. you have another young person. >> perfect segue. he's beginning the college application process but he's concerned about how his socioeconomic background might be a barrier to education. >> as a senior applying to different colleges, my dream school is ut and usc. i've taken full advantage much my high school over classes. i've won the distinguished honor in this city of numerous awards. i still feel that. because of my background, because of maybe ...

We have a high school senior in the bronx, the first in her family to apply to college. she was guided in that process by the college-bound initiative of college access programs serving nearly 9,000 low-income students in more than a dozen new york city and philadelphia public high schools. the college-bound initiative places fulltime college counselors in high-need schools to guide students in the college application process. her parents came to the bronx from a small east african country shortly before she was born, in 1993. her parents are divorced now and she lives with her mother, a hotel...

Has built and built and built to this moment, to this tidal wave of emotion that hits when it all comes down to the words on that piece of paper. we have a high school senior in the bronx, the first in her family to apply to college. she was guided in that process by the college-bound initiative of college access programs serving nearly 9,000 low-income students in more than a dozen new york city and philadelphia public high schools. the college-bound initiative places fulltime college counselors in high-need schools to guide students in the college application process. her parents came to the...