[incoherent sputtering]
I have been working all fucking day to get your stupid fucking online applications process to work and I am about to throw a brick through my computer screen, since kicking you personally in the nuts is apparently out of the question.
Now I realize my computer is a piece of shit. I realize I’m running Orinigal Flavor Windows 98, and I only have 256 k of RAM and a Pentium II (To quote Wierd Al: What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?). And I am using dialup. I am broke, and I live in the sticks. These are my options. I have to work with them.
But your stupid fucking system does not fucking work. If you have minimum system requirements, inform your users of them. You claim to be able to work under Win 98 and yet… I did as you instructed. Your worthless system can’t work with Firefox, so I contained my gag reflex and used your recommended piece of shit browser, IE. I enabled Javascript, I turned Security to Low, I set my browser to accept your popups, I even made you a trusted site, as your troubleshooting FAQ suggested I do. I downloaded your Omniform form-filler-inner device. Yet your site crashed my browser over and over and over again whenever I tried to load an application. Your technical support really had no idea why – they were certain my browser version was not the issue – and helpfully suggested downloading Netscape instead. I did this – it took 2.5 hours over my dialup connection by the way-- and you know what? This piece of shit browser doesn’t fucking work with your site either. It can’t even recognize the Omniform plug in. I’m further away from my goal of completing a law school application than I was 10 fucking hours of my life ago. 10 hours I’ll never ever get back. All thanks to you and your stupid fucking site.
GAAAAAAAHHHHH!
Why must you torment me so? I must enjoy punishment, since I’ll be calling technical support again tomorrow (and that call isn’t toll-free, oh no it isn’t. Long-distance, baby!). I’m sure that will be entertaining, as well as expensive.
Please excuse any incoherence. I am somewhat… annoyed.
Do they only accept online applications? If getting and filling out a paper application isn’t an option, is there a library or something nearby that will give you 'net access? It’s entirely possible that their application can’t handle the waiting involved with a dial-up connection.
Actually, the plugins and settings you need preclude the use of public terminals. They don’t only accept online applications, but they’re preferred, and I’m already using the Data Assembly service, which collects and distributes your transcripts, Recommendations, etc. So it would be fucking stupid to do the application half one way and half the other. The whole point it to do your apps i one place, and track their completeion status.
Campion: LOL!
Apparently this little vent was what I needed, because I found the problem and made the piece of crap run. It was just like that scene in Real Genius where Chris starts kicking the fridge in frustration and the tube of Nitrogen konks him on the head, helping him solve the power prolem on the laser.
I went through the entire application process on-line, via dialup; I don’t remember many specifics, but I know I never got that stupid little Oniform-thing to work. Good luck.
If my experience is anything to go by, they don’t really care how you apply; what matters is that you do apply, by whatever means.
I ran into the same roadblocks you did when I tried to apply; and eventually, I threw up my hands, said, “The hell with this online crap,” and filled out the forms by hand. Mailed them in, and received my test ticket and other materials a few weeks later.
And yes, the forms have spaces where you can select the Data Assembly Service and such. LSAC treats, as far as I can tell, Online Applicants and Form-Fillers the same way in all matters.
Ultimately, the real test is the test itself. Do well on that, and nobody will care how you applied to take the test.
I’ve taken the LSAT already (I had no problem registering online for that actually). My bitch is about the system that submits online applications to your chosen law schools. Just to be clear.
I don’t want to fill in forms by hand. Luckily, I don’t have to: I made the system work. I think I wore it down with my persistance.
