<p>^PandaBoy, Stanford shouldn’t care, but they do. My sister went there and worked in the admin office part time. Stanford is very anal about deadlines, even though the office is closed as you say.</p>
<p>Well, I actually submitted my Stanford application at exactly 12:00 PST. I was freaking out at the time because 5 minutes before, commonapp decided to screw me over and throw out a bunch of technical errors, reset some areas of my application, and cut off my essays early. When I submitted my application, I immediately checked the time on my computer which was 12:00 PST and the atomic clock time on google which was also 12:00 PST. Maybe stanford extended their deadline a few minutes or maybe I submitted the last of my application in the last 5 seconds of 11:59 and it turned 12 without me noticing, but I guess I’m lucky because my app went through</p>
<p>cute story rymd. I was able to submit my final BU essay last night so it’d look better coming on 1/1, though they extended deadlines to 1/4. I got in at 11:59, so pretty happy here.</p>
<p>@ ASDF: You have to send recs in special evelopes for Stanford?!?!Our school just mails everything in one big folder.=/</p>
<p>Stanford just emailed me saying they extended their deadline to the 3rd!</p>
<p>God exists!</p>
<p>when they say due Jan1</p>
<p>is it before Jan1 or on Jan1?</p>
<p>like 11:59PM Dec31 is cutoff or 11:59PM Jan1 is cutoff?</p>
<p>January 2 deadline is in a little less than 6 hours (for east coast schools).
11:59 PM Jan 1 was the cutoff for January 1 deadlines.</p>
<p>thanks secret asian man</p>
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<p>This is not crazy. Here at UVA in the CS class I am a TA for, if your assignment is 1 second late you get a 0. This is real world and you need to take deadlines seriously. Hopefully you will learn this before college, before it affects your GPA, before you cost your company large amounts of money, because of lateness.</p>
<p>Ask yourself: is it procrastination or self-sabotage?</p>
<p>WAIT. stanford extended their deadline to the 3rd??? seriously??? is this for ALL applicants or just ones who submitted it a few seconds/minutes/whatever late?</p>
<p>As harsh as I may sound, I always warn my children and my high school students about waiting until the last minute. Stuff happens that we can’t always predict and the important deadlines in your life need to be respected, yes, I mean respected. Colleges know when students submit applications. Not only does the content of the application share something about the student, but so does the time submitted. Now, I understand that sometimes circumstances beyond our control can make us look bad, even when we work hard to avoid having any problems, but that is also a part of life. Basically, if something is really important to you make time for it early - not latter. And double-check to make sure everything is received. Just because something is important to you doesn’t mean it is important to others. There is some saying that goes: “Your emergency isn’t my emergency”.</p>
<p>I think the expression you are thinking of (and it’s one of my favorites) is: “Your procrastination is not my emergency.”</p>
<p>Or – as I have been telling my son throughout this entire process – as Benjamin Franklin said, “You may delay, but time will not…”</p>
<p>I have friends who are perfectionists, not procrastinators, and they submit their applications in on the last minute because they genuinely love the colleges they’re applying to and want to make sure what goes out is their very best work.</p>
<p>I have friends like that too. Within a month of going to college, they all told me about the mean evil TA who gave them 0 on an assignment because they ran in 10 minutes after it was due.</p>
<p>on the common app website it says everything submitted is timestamped with an east coast time.</p>
<p>i turned in penn, northwestern, boston college, syracuse, and nyu like at 9:40 west coast time because i didnt know that the deadline was at 12 ET. will i be good?</p>
<p>These applications are really not that hard to do. People shouldn’t be taking months to write an essay(or 2-3 haha). However, that’s why you work on them during the summer and get them out of the way.(like i did)</p>
<p>Now I should practice what I preached by not procrastionating on everything else.</p>
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<p>Does this mean even if the school is, lets say on the west coast, the due date is 12am EST? I thought it was by the school’s timezone?</p>
<p>For all of you people chastising all of us procrastinators…please read the title of the thread. If you’re offended by our mistakes then just don’t read or post this thread. If you’re just being supercilious then you should seriously reconsider your priorities. Plus, I’m sure there’ve been times you’ve been late to something big that taught you to plan ahead. We’re all in the process of learning, so cut us some slack and let us whine to each other, wouldja please???</p>