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<p>And where might this place be?</p>
<p>It seems obvious that applicants will want to work up to a deadline much as a kid works up to a deadline on a college paper or a reporter works up to a newspaper deadline. The point is not how less stressful or better the whole process would go if they submitted it well in advance, the point is a clear communication of what the deadline IS. I don’t think the common app people have done the latter, but I could be wrong. </p>
<p>So, I posed the question to the Common App people and this was the response:</p>
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<p>So, as many posters have mentioned, schools aren’t shooting themselves in the foot around this issue. However, this Eastern Time Zone-centric approach is unfair to the rest of the country. Why should they get fewer hours on the last day to work on their Eastern school applications? Also, if a California student apply to two schools at 10 p.m. one on the West Coast and one on the East Coast, one is technically late and the other is on time. That seems like a fail to me. Not a huge deal, but easily solved without messing with 17 year old kids.</p>