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Missing application information when exporting to PDF

Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:41 am
by mr_toad
My Northwestern application is not showing the year of my retake when I get to the second-to-last step before submitting (you know, when you can view your entire application before sending it off). It's there when I'm working online, but then the "2010" is missing on the PDF version, it just shows the month and date. Call them? Addendum (seems like a waste of an addendum, but otherwise it might look like a lack of care). Has anyone else experienced discrepancies between the online editable application documents and the export version? If so, what did you do? Thanks!

Re: Missing application information when exporting to PDF

Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:43 am
by r6_philly
Generally you don't send it until you are sure the form come through fine ... I would just leave it alone because the PDF generator does clip some text, so they would understand. If you point out you caught it afterwards, that means you didn't proofread it?

Re: Missing application information when exporting to PDF

Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:50 am
by mr_toad
Well, that's the thing. I haven't sent it yet because I want to figure out how to fix it. Or maybe e-mail them and let them know? I've deleted and re-input that section three times, and every time I export the year gets deleted. Small thing, right? And yet, to them, we are (in part) the summation of small things.

Re: Missing application information when exporting to PDF

Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:01 am
by r6_philly
include on the month and date like 02/10. Date doesn't really matter when it comes to lsat.

Re: Missing application information when exporting to PDF

Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:12 am
by mr_toad
I might try that, but on the electronic application, it clearly gives the individual character boxes for MM/DD/YYYY. That's why it's so frustrating. The boxes are there, but the last four get cut off. Aaargh! But yes, if nothing else works, I will try to do that.