This year is the first time uni¬versity applications are only accepted online.

The deadline for direct admis¬sions is today, but central admis¬sion applications can be made until Friday week (May 18), as Ohec has extended its original deadline.

"If you don't want to apply under the directadmission system, please give way to others," Ohec secretarygeneral Pavich Thongroj said on Tuesday.

More than 30,000 applications were submitted online on Monday night, he said, causing problems with the CUAS website. At times the site crawled to a stop.

"If you are going to apply under the central admission system, please sit back and relax," Pavich commented.

More than 100 students arrived at Ohec headquarters yesterday morning, after finding they could not access the website on Monday night. Some complained they were unable to submit their applications online because the website had failed to retrieve their scores from the central database.

Pavich said the website should be able to accommodate all of the applicants under the Ohecorgan¬ised directadmission system by today - if other students did not bog down the system with centraladmission applications.

Pavich said there were only about 5,000 seats at higheredu¬cational institutes available under the Ohecorganised directadmis¬sion system. The centraladmis¬sion system has more than 100,000 seats available.

The deadline for applications under the directadmission system cannot be postponed, because Ohec is scheduled to announce the list of successful applicants eligible for interview on Sunday.

Pavich said the deadline exten¬sion for the centraladmission sys¬tem would not affect other admis¬sion schedules.

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