<p>Well yes I meant the actual application. They are more lenient for forms out of the student’s control - like transcripts.</p>
<p>Wneckid99, was that post really necessary? When someone admits to having screwed up, why kick them while they’re down?</p>
<p>I agree with the idea that waiting to the last minute reflects ambivalence about a school. My DD was pushing the send button at 11:57 PM last night and will probably do the same tonight for another school. I’ve accepted her long established procrastination issues and feel what is meant to be will be. She does have one good acceptance in the bag so that helps me relax but I’m glad the deadlines are almost over. Choices are made by our actions & inactions, that is just human nature.</p>
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<p>Dude, that sucks! Did Stanford still keep their application fees? If their application fee is $75 than that’s about $75000 for unevaluated apps.</p>
<p>^I don’t know, but their application fee is $90.</p>
<p>^ It was something that ended in 5 last year. I remember because I paid it :P. I’m pretty sure it was $75 but it could have been $85.</p>
<p>Oh okay. Regardless it’s a lot of money :)</p>
<p>This is going to sound really stupid, but can someone tell me how to post my own thread? I can’t figure out how to do it.</p>
<p>does the downloaded date matter??? mine says 1/2 even though I submitted yesterday?!?!</p>
<p>@sarbear767: Above the thread listings in this forum is a button that says “New Thread.”</p>
<p>@paki786: No. You’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Wow… Stanford is HARSH… but I guess we all could have expected that based on their EA decisions and selectivity and whatnot XP</p>
<p>I think the majority of other schools will be lenient if you’re a few seconds/minutes late, though. Days… I would imagine, not so much.</p>
<p>I’m actually guessing it wasn’t a matter of students being a few minutes late (the post never says that).</p>
<p>Rather, it is far more likely that students <em>never</em> actually “submitted” but thought they had.</p>
<p>^ Well, here’s the sentence again: “These students completed their applications online and paid their application fees but failed to actually “submit” their applications online by the deadline.”</p>
<p>It does sound like they mean those applicants were late. Universities like to word things in euphemistic ways. How would the university know that an applicant believed they submitted their application but didn’t in reality otherwise?</p>
<p>You’re right: it could probably be interpreted that way.</p>
<p>However, I still find it unlikely that they were referring to students within minutes of the deadline.</p>
<p>It might be possible because all Stanford applications have to be submitted online. So the deadline might be computer-monitored and the system just completely shuts down at a set time and doesn’t accept any more applications. There’s probably no person manually going through all the digital submissions and going “Oh, this person submitted two minutes late, we’ll make them an exception”.</p>
<p>It would be interesting to evaluate the “full pay” vs “needs aid” applicants who turn apps in late.</p>
<p>I am betting the schools would never, never release this data.</p>
<p>Stanford’s super-strict attitude on everything from deadlines to the type of envelope your teacher recommenders need to send is one of the reasons I didn’t apply. I don’t like when people are very rigid and uncompromising, and college administrations often reflect their student bodies.</p>
<p>Deadlines are there for a reason. If an applicant is rushing to submit an application the night it’s due so that minutes and seconds become crucial it’s the applicant’s problem, not theirs. If exceptions were offered all the time then there wouldn’t be much point to a deadline. Where would you draw the line with exceptions?</p>
<p>dude, i tried submitting my appi on the 30th of dec. 09’ yo and it took 3 days for my commonapp account to say i had paid the fees, it only allowed me to submit it this morning… i am sending them an email saying my cat knocked over soda on my keyboard…hopefully they don’t ask how i sent them this email…lawl ;D</p>
<p>its ok~
for example stanford admissions office is closed until the 3rd.
so they would care if they got it the 1st or 2nd or even later.</p>