<p>I failed to complete my stanford, upenn, and carnegie mellon apps, the last one because i couldnt upload my supplement essay to the common app for some reason.</p>
<p>I procrastinated way too much, I had plenty of time during the break to work on my essays but I chose not to until the last twenty four hours, and now I guess I’m paying the price for my laziness.</p>
<p>i turned it two east coast colleges after midnight on east coast. one was just 5 minutes after and one was a few hours after. it was an honest mistake though, i didnt realize it had to be by midnight east coast time if i was on the west coast. i never read/saw that anywhere. how do people know that? is it common sense? hopefully they’ll take it, or they will understand if i explain
oh well, at least the two schools werent my top choices</p>
<p>I applied after 9 PM on the west coast to Georgetown and got in. Don’t worry about it.</p>
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<p>Yes, yes it is.</p>
<p>^idk about that, i didn’t really think about it until I read it somewhere on CC. I guess browsing this forum paid off after all.</p>
<p>I applied to Colby a few hours after the deadline because i couldn’t upload my essays, and it took me a long time to figure out how to find an alternate way. if it hadn’t been for that, my app would have gotten in on time. the funny thing was, i made completely sure that all the requirements that the common app gave for the documents to be uploaded were met. Eventually, i had to download adobe acrobat and adobe flash player, with a slow, dialup connection. i wrote the office of admission giving an explanation, but i don’t know if they will be sympathetic, seeing as if i had started earlier, i could have figured out the problem days before hand.</p>
<p>Anyway, all i want to know is if my application will still be considered equally, be set to higher standards, or if i am basically screwed. Please tell me that it doesn’t matter that much.</p>
<p>Last year, about 1000 applicants were never considered by Stanford because when they submitted a few seconds or minutes too late. So Stanford is probably a no-go. Try to work on CMU and UPenn though.</p>
<p>i disagree. it isn’t common sense. the commonapp site doesn’t clearly state it, and many school sites don’t state it. </p>
<p>yeah, unfortunately stanford’s crazy with their deadlines.</p>
<p>how is it not common sense…im an international student and i figured it out…
u always use the date/time of the timezone the uni is located in</p>
<p>Post #7. Where did the info. about Stanford come from? Unlikely they had 1000 applications that were “a few minutes” late.</p>
<p>No one is around most of these admissions offices until Monday. There are frequently upload problems and most schools will allow a day or two grace period on the application deadline.</p>
<p>But…maybe missing the deadline is a subconscious way of deciding the school really wasn’t a good match, anyway.</p>
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<p>@ OP - Submit it anyways. I don’t think Stanford will consider it, but CMU and Penn should. If it’s a day late though, I doubt it.</p>
<p>My daughter has has to mail things with a postmark deadline of January 1st, when the post office is NEVER open on January 1! Why pick that day? She was a bit late now because she assumed she could send it electronically and she couldn’t. The post office closed early on December 31st too.</p>
<p>Aaarrrrrghghggh! Get it all in in November everyone! Now we’re dealing with all the January 4th, January 5th and January 8th deadlines…</p>
<p>^Ugh. I was stressing about that so much, as the supplement for Pomona College was due Jan. 1st, so I assumed all the various paperwork you submit would be too, and, like you said, it is all closed. Thankfully, I saw on their website that it had to be postmarked by Jan. 2nd!!</p>
<p>How could you miss the deadline? Apps should be done well before hand…</p>
<p>As for mailing things…almost every college accepts mailed things later than their set deadline because they know mail can be slow/unreliable.
Recommendations, various other mailed things are usually accepted later</p>
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<p>Yes but if it is postmarked after the deadline they won’t be lenient.</p>
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<p>I’ll agree with you that 1 January 2010 is an inconvenient date. And I’ll sympathize with you in dealing with that inconvenience. That said, </p>
<p>a) some cities have ONE post office that is open 24/7 year-round, perhaps near the city’s airport (as my city does), and </p>
<p>b) any applicant can PLAN to beat the deadline. </p>
<p>For us, submitting nonbinding early action applications was great practice in debugging how to beat deadlines in the regular decision round. I highly recommend that for applicants in future years. Our early round experience also suggests that a student who beats the student’s deadline (our son didn’t go past the deadline on any application) will be spared bad consequences of parents, counselors, teachers, or any other adult not being on time. Colleges check submitted application files well AFTER the deadline to see if the files are complete, and my son was allowed to contact other persons to ask for file elements to complete his application files a full month after the official application deadline, even in the tightly scheduled early action round. He was also admitted at a college that gave him a merit scholarship offer with what was logged in as an incomplete application file. Lots of good results are possible even if adults make mistakes–but students should do their best to meet their own deadlines. </p>
<p>Good luck to all of you. Just say, “Thanks for reminding me” if a college tells you are late with some element of your application file, and see what you can do to fix the problem. </p>
<p>P.S. Some colleges have officially extended their application deadlines, but I don’t know which ones.</p>
<p>member2008: but Georgetown’s application deadline is Jan. 10.:)</p>
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<p>I think they usually will be pretty lenient - unless it’s your actual application, in which case, no, they probably won’t be. But I’m not really sure about this.</p>
<p>Procrastination - never helps or looks good</p>
<p>@ proletariat are you sure? I told my school to send in my transcripts at the beginning of Dec. but my naviance doesn’t show that they sent it so I’m pretty sure they never sent it and I can’t tell em to send it until jan 4th when I come back from break.</p>