11:59 Dec. 31st or 11:59 Jan. 1st???

fallenchemist
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 17:10:13 +0000

*The OP asked a simple question. They were not asking for nor did they require advice, lectures and criticism on time management or other topics. The other poster is also perfectly correct. It only needs to be in by the deadline; one week before or one hour before or one minute before is irrelevant to all but the student and their family.

Added Jan 2: There are 1,000 legit reasons for last minute applications, not the least of which is that the colleges themselves continue to send literature and emails well into December, asking (begging, even) students to apply. It would be the height of hypocrisy to then turn around and penalize them for “procrastinating” or “not showing enough interest” because it was submitted Jan. X, which is their deadline. And that’s only one reason it might be “last minute”. There are hundreds more that have nothing to do with how interested they are or are not in that school. How can they (or any of us here on CC) possibly know? End of edit.

Question answered (11:59:59 Jan 1, 2016 local time), closing thread.*

FYI @NASA2014

They won’t review your application on January 1st. They might start later or so. Probably January 5, 2016 is when they will start reading.

This really is potentially misleading. As has been pointed out, it is easy to see if the application was submitted on time. Would a college decide not to accept an application because it was submitted after the deadline? Very, very possibly. I have certainly known profs that won’t accept an assignment submitted after midnight the day it was due, even though they had no intention of grading them until maybe even a few days later. And they are perfectly right to hold to that.