Help!! Send in my SPS application now?

ExieMITAlum
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:22:36 +0000

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.

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?

Lessons are best learned when they are hard ones.