missed deadline AHHHHHHHHHH!

AVHS_Dad
Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:55:36 +0000

NEVER count on a grace period. My son was working on essays for his last 3 apps until about 8:45PM the night of January 1st… West Coast time! Two of the three were due 1/1/10. One suppliment got in before 9PM, the balance by 9:30PM PST. Everything but the suppliment had a common app date stamp of 1/2/10. Looks like everything went through okay. However, another student at this site tried to apply to one of those schools yesterday (1/3/10) and the common app would not allow them to apply.

Lesson: The common app will stamp your submissions as of Eastern Standard Time (EST) so plan accordingly!