<p>I’m not saying make it a two week difference. And I completely agree with you that people need to learn how to meet deadlines - realize that they cannot send everything out on the 1st because places will be closed so plan for a few days in advance. All of my apps were in by the 27th. However I think what some of us were questioning was why not make the deadline the Monday after New Year’s - January 4th? Certainly doesn’t disadvantage the admissions committee as they don’t go back to the office until then anyway.</p>
<p>I emailed Yale and from what I understand, they’ll accept applications that were due to a technical problem with Common App itself. </p>
<p>They didn’t tell me whether this grace period is for all students or just those who couldn’t work the Common App system (Sallie Mae was not interested in my web browser and I had to switch browsers).</p>
<p>As for the procrastination, I know I am personally guilty of it haha. I also changed my essay three to four times and even started some from scratch before I turned them in. Sometimes you get these last minute epiphanies about what to write you know :]</p>
<p>I had given up on Stanford long before. Last night(3rd 11pm PT), i checked my inbox and found that notification of deadline extension. so i decided to apply again.
after submitting the supplement which i had done before, i paid the application fee(, out of stupidity!)</p>
<p>i was wanting to shrink an EC essay into a new EC short answer for Stanford, but could not cut down the last few words until it was 12:03!!!
It said i couldnt submit the common app because it had passed the deadline. it did not happen to others schools i procrastinated on…</p>
<p>3 min!!
■■■!!
Stanford, I want my $90 back!!!</p>
<p>what am i going to do? i didn’t realize that ALL of my common app wasnt submitted until today JAN 4th, and all of my apps were due JAN 1st. I submitted my supplements and payments on the same day(JAN 1st), and i was pretty sure i submitted the common app too!
but i think there was an error in submitting it but i misunderstood that the apps went thogh went through.
What is going to happen???</p>
<p>I just checked a few minutes ago, and it says “downloaded 01/05/10”, does that mean that they accepted my application?</p>
<p>Question about SATs.
If you send them the day that you submit your application, a day before the deadline, are you okay?
Like, for example, I sent my Vassar app like 10 days before the deadline, and the same day I also told College Board to send my scores. And then for Tufts, I submitted my app on the 3rd and sent my scores on the 3rd, a day before the deadline.
I chose regular shipping (funny since it’s actually electronic), and so there’s a high chance that they But I figured it was fine, considering the fact that a lot of schools accepted SATs taken on January 2nd, and my scores were “postmarked” before the deadline.</p>
<p>Didn’t know that time zone would be a factor and i live on the west coast (pacific time) the school that i applied to BU is on the east coast so it sayd it was basically turned in the day after. Does anyone know if BU accepts late applications?</p>
<p>As far as I know, most if not all (except stanford) schools have a grace period after the deadline. How long that grace period is for each school, in this case BU, i don’t know. If they download it however, I would assume that they will consider it.</p>
<p>Heartlikeasocket…I think you’re fine. They usually ask for “postmark” (which is surely the same as a “request”, since electronic). It DOES take them some time to actually send it now, but colleges know that. You’re OK.</p>
<p>I have sympathy for you all, especially for students applying to the highly competitive schools. You have so much on your plates already with AP/IB classes, time-consuming EC’s, etc. that there’s almost no free time before winter break to work on a big extra project like college apps. And what is the point of the common app if everyone is going to require their own long and involved supplements too? Sure, maybe working on the essays during the summer would have been nice, but I know my D was busy with a job, her sports training, and lots and lots of AP summer assignments. Besides, it’s not like everyone has their life goals and plans figured out by junior year. Junior year and the summer after it is an important time of reflection.</p>
<p>I have no stake in this thread and I don’t really care, but the point of COMMON SENSE is that it need not be stated. Therefore… it isn’t stated, because it’s COMMON SENSE. Just pointing that out. It struck me as funny.</p>
<p>Many kids have not finalized their college plans by the summer, or even completed all their college visits. And then fall rolls around with classes and sports etc. etc. I have a hardworking child who went down to the wire with apps. As a parent, I didn’t even realize that there would be so much work involved, thinking that the common app would be the bulk of the work. All those extra essays and questions on the supplements took longer than anticipated. For those of you who ran out of time, don’t beat yourselves up over it. As someone who did not go to my first (or second or third) choice school, but ended up loving the school I went to, I can tell you that there are so many schools that you can be happy at.</p>
<p>PS–I watched my daughter do the Stanford application and it was a real pain! Look on the Stanford forum and you’ll see so many questions about how to do that supplement, like why an answer that’s supposedly the correct number of characters doesn’t fit in the space?</p>
<p>And I love how some of these elite schools want their entering students to be already “finished” so to speak, looking for major adult accomplishments and even asking what cultural events and shows the student attended recently. Umm, we poor common folk want to send our kids to schools like Stanford precisely to have access to lectures, art exhibits and various other cultural opportunities that aren’t available to us or are cost-prohibitive in the major metropolitan areas. Way to give us a heart attack!</p>
<p>ummm. so I failed to send in my application for Pomona on 1/2 and they send me an email saying I could send it until 1/11. Is this because “you began your application prior to the deadline” ? what’s up with this?</p>
<p>It is very amusing that after so many lectures by the local moralists, the institutional keeper of the hard-line flame, Stanford U, extended their “absolute” deadline by two days due to technical problems. That is more typical of the real world.</p>
<p>In some ways I completely agree. At first, I had trouble answering those questions, particularly because of my family’s income. I have no idea whether you meant “we poor common folk” as in the middle-income households or the low-income households. I’m from a low-income household and I have honestly never been to a presentation or performance. But it was very easy to talk about the cultural experiences I was interested in, or the ones I wanted to see so badly but was just a mere common person. I think you can incorporate the best of both worlds into it - even in two lines or less.</p>
<p>Hey, I’ve been hearing a lot of different opinions on this, but if on the common app website, the forms are all DOWNLOADED (and the payments are all submitted, so all green arrows), can I get a good night’s sleep and rest assured that all of my schools are going to process my stuff?</p>
<p>To be honest, I feel the college process is a nightmare and my school didn’t help at all neithier did my parents. I’m first generation college and my family has no idea what to do. I was confused about when to send test scores (I sent them all last night, hopefully that is fine). I had no idea if my transcript was included on my commonapp because my school said to use docufide but then when I tried to send it through docufide it said “your teacher has not started your secondary school report” in which she submitted… So I just decided to send all my transcripts to all the schools anyways and waste the $40 dollars… because I have no idea what I am doing (*note money is very tight right now also). I had to postpone sending my scores till last night because I didn’t have enough money before to send them in. I had to do all the applications myself with no help from anybody… I don’t understand how colleges expect if we are first generation college students, without the means to buy college counselours, and none provided by our highschool, how we can possibly do this college process right?</p>
<p>I got my applications turned in, but I honestly think I forgot something or another…</p>