Tom Chiancone, Union Plus Scholarship Program Manager, sends this report on recent problems some people had applying online for a Union Plus scholarship.

If you tried to complete the Union Plus Scholarship application prior to the Jan. 31 deadline, please accept our apologies for any problems you may have experienced submitting your application in the past couple of days.  Our partner’s online application system had trouble handling the recent extremely high volume of activity, but we’ve worked with them to resolve the issues.

We have a record of all applicants who logged in or attempted to log in to the application system since Jan. 29, 2012 and our provider sent an e-mail to all applicants at 12 pm ET on Feb. 1, 2012.  This e-mail noted that your application has been re-opened and you have until 5 p.m. (EST) Friday, Feb. 3  to login to complete and submit your application. NOTE:  E-mails were sent to the email address provided during the set up your scholarship login ID.

Also, at 12 p.m. ET on Feb. 1, an e-mail was sent to all applicants that successfully submitted, verifying  your complete application was received.

If you do not get an e-mail, please send a request to open your application to info@unionplus.org and make sure to include your login ID. You can also check your e-mail junk or spam folders in case the message was delivered to those folders.

NOTE:  If you had NOT already started your application before the Jan. 31 deadline, we are NOT accepting NEW scholarship applications at this time.

Thanks for your understanding and good luck with your education pursuits!