I applied to NYU ED to CAS, and all my transcripts, recommendations, and scores were successfully sent on time in October. I also signed the Early Decision agreement, along with my mom, and noticed that my counselor had not yet filled it out. I asked him politely if he could do it straight away, and he promised to do so that evening.
Assuming that he’d done it, I submitted my Commonapp a few days later. I expected that the system would tell me I was missing his agreement if he hadn’t done it yet. It went through perfectly fine, and two days later, I received an email with application acknowledgement and my NetID. I went in and looked at the checklist for my application – everything was checked off and I thought I was good to go.
This is when horror struck, about a month after I’d submitted my application. A friend of mine started crying yesterday that her counselor had not submitted an ED agreement and that the results for her first choice school come out on the 10th of November – hardly enough time, in her opinion, to look over her application. She claimed that the counselor not submitting the agreement had prevented the office from reading her app. I tried to comfort her, but this is when I started getting nervous.
I logged on to CA in a panic and checked the section where the agreements and recommendations were. My heart literally dropped. The box next to my transcripts and recommendations were all marked ‘Downloaded 10/26/15’, but the one box that was empty was the Counselor ED Agreement. Naturally, I burst into tears like my friend and I proceeded to panic like there was no tomorrow. What does Downloaded even mean?
What I don’t understand is that NYU did not send me an email regarding the missing agreement, and I also don’t understand why my application went through in the first place. I’ve even read some threads here that transcripts cannot be sent to ED schools if the agreement isn’t submitted. I also thought that CA would warn me if I was missing a crucial part of my application.
My counselor apologized over and over when I came to the office, telling me that he’d completely forgotten to submit it. Of course, it was my own fault that I didn’t check CA before submitting (but I thought CA would warn me first). He submitted it this morning, and it showed up in Commonapp. However, when I called the admissions office (a little bit teary and hiccupy), they entered my university ID and told me it wasn’t showing up. I also asked if the missing counselor agreement had prevented the office from reading my application, but the officer replied vaguely that ‘we’ll read it when we get to it’.
I’m just nervous that this will hurt my chances of getting in. Some people have told me that the later the office reads an application, the less likely it’ll get in. Some NYU threads have claimed that the admissions office is ‘finishing up’ with applications this week – it’s absolutely terrifying. What’s going to happen?