Question About Collegeboard Score Reports

turnwrite
Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:36:24 +0000

I have a pretty urgent question. Actually, it’s not that urgent since there’s nothing I can do about it now. Also, I understand that saving things until the last minute is bad, but it’s just what ended up happening in this case.

That said, here’s the issue.

I am applying to both Brown University and Columbia University. Both of their deadlines are today, Jan 1. I have submitted everything – my Common App, the supplements, and school forms / letters of rec are all done. However, I am only just now getting on the collegeboard website to send my official score reports to these colleges. I had thought collegeboard sent these reports online, so the transfer would be instant or close to it. But it’s asking me about “priority shipping,” so only now I realize it must be a mail process. It’s evening now, so even if they put these reports in the mail today they aren’t going to be postmarked by today.

What can I do? Is this something colleges are going to be lenient about? Will they even notice? I did self-report my scores within the common app, if it matters.