<p>Guys I really need your help and advice now, and I would appreciate you sooooooo much!!!</p>
<p>When I was working on my essays I didn’t leave enough time for my SPS one, so I still haven’t submitted the SPS application yet. But I really don’t want to miss this chance. Could my file still be read if I send them in late? I am freaking out now.</p>
<p>Could anyone give me any advice?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Well, it definitely won’t be read if you don’t send it in . . . so there’s no harm in trying.</p>
<p>The biggest mistakes in life are those chances not taken.</p>
<p>What do you have to lose (or what is the harm) as dodgersmom indicated.</p>
<p>I applied 6 weeks late to a top LA college back in the day. I got in.</p>
<p>At the risk of fast becoming the least popular parent on this forum, I’m going to play “tough love” again on this thread and suggest that perhaps the time for freaking out was last Friday.</p>
<p>While I understand that the other parents are being encouraging, I’d think about it this way: If applying to SPS is as important to you as you claim, why didn’t you make time for it? </p>
<p>There’s the expression “Where your treasure is, so will your heart be also.” I think the word “treasure” applies to time and not just money. Maybe it wasn’t meant to be.</p>
<p>Also, if you are having trouble with prioritization and time management now, how do you think you’ll fare at a rigorous boarding school? Especially one that champions “Freedom with responsibility.”? I ask this frankly, not facetiously.</p>
<p>A final question that I have for you and other students who have asked about submitting apps after the deadline…have you asked your parents what they think?</p>
<p>Note that I am not asking you to answer these questions on the forum…your answers may provide too much information about your identity.</p>
<p>That will pretty much be the attitude of the school, I’m afraid. SPS takes a comparatively low percentage of applicants, competition is tough, and the pool of qualified students is getting larger. And having just completed several dozen interview reports for my assigned institutions, I will admit to grilling students who called for interviews (during the holiday season) on the deadline - including several who had not, 12 days before the deadline for applications, bothered to request recommendations for teachers, or start their essay.</p>
<p>As @SevenDad explained - if it was that important to you, you would have made time for it. The postmark date is there for a reason. They have a lot of applications (thousands) to read while maintaining their own normal workloads. Why would they read a late applicant over someone who made them a priority?</p>
<p>Lessons are best learned when they are hard ones.</p>
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<p>I know it can’t be read if you do not send it.</p>
<p>I am sure you have heard the expressions, “If you are going to be late, it better be great.”</p>
<p>GL</p>
<p>I agree with Weatherby, make it great. We received a nice letter from one of the schools that said how much they appreciate the predicament most applicants are in, with one foot in their present world continuing to work hard for grades, etc. and one foot in the next, trying to write thoughtful essays and completing the app. I think they are a little more forgiving them some parents here, but hey, again, I’m no AO, just a parent of a current applicant who has completed a heck of a lot of parent statements and am trying to keep my student from feeling overly stressed. 
Don’t spend time here, get it in…Life is all about taking some risk. Take the chance of sending late, albeit late. You may get a heckofa nice surprise.</p>