<p>Do you think the 1000 Stanford people who couldn’t be considered for admission still counted for the acceptance rate? ;)</p>
<p>What high school senior student waits until the minute before your app is due? I sent all mine in during early September and spent the fall relaxed and accepted into my college of choice by Thanksgiving holiday. Don’t procrastinate and make your holidays crazy.</p>
<p>Oneeyedfinch, did your parents go to college or your siblings?</p>
<p>Most people who submit at last minute are people who are not familiar with the college process… adcoms even say they love getting 1st gen students but their parents often are aware of deadlines especially with aps and fasfa. They would like to see more applying but it seems its almost always on the student to do everything and the parent doesn’t seem to pay attention to how important deadlines are/ how time consuming it really is for their child.</p>
<p>My parents had no idea what I was doing and literally told me to apply to wherever I wanted… about 3 weeks before apps were due. Also noting they wanted atleast 2 ivy leagues… *I had ACT and SAT to study for and all my classes to keep up with.</p>
<p>It sometimes isn’t that easy to have them done by September especially when your parents didn’t make it clear you should apply to privates…</p>
<p>Other times apps are turned in last minute (last day) because finances aren’t there to turn them in earlier/ parents didn’t plan ahead like they should have it. It isnt always the students fault.</p>
<p>It’s on the common app instruction pape. I didn’t realize that either. :[</p>
<p>I WANT TO DO BROWN SO BADLY. I just got it now ;o; why didnt I find out three days ago…</p>
<p>I know I’ve heard people in this thread say they were overloaded with work, or teachers didn’t prep fast enough, or they’re first gen and couldn’t have known (about some information that is freely accessible on the internet, and in HS guidance rooms, and in bookstores or libraries.).</p>
<p>But…Generally speaking, doesn’t the Common Application form go up in July/August? I thought it was July 1st. That’s almost half a year - five whole months that you had access to the Common App. Everyone had July, August, September, October, and all of December to apply within. Frankly, I asked most of my teachers last year for recommendations, so there was no need, or worry they’d be late. In five months why did no one have time, a holiday, or a sick day, to do their apps? One App took me 15 minutes, another took two days (they very), but after the common app is done, generally all you have to do is fill out new supplements. </p>
<p>I understand why a 1st gen-er might have problems, but for everyone who knew the dates, why didn’t you plan ahead? If you know you’re busy, work around it. It’s not as if the prompts for the general essay drastically change from year to year. I wrote my essay and did my application from a print off from the PREVIOUS year. I didn’t find too many differences, honestly.</p>
<p>I wrote my 2 college essays the day before the application was due LOL. Surprisingly one of the essays was pretty good and I got accepted.</p>
<p>Wowie…
I didn’t go to college, and I stood behind my D with a cattle prod for her to get hers done in time. I had no CLUE about college until I started to research this past year/summer. Had no CLUE I wouldn’t be able to afford to send her to her dream school. But she applied on time, meeting all priority deadlines, with plenty of room for problems. Because they WILL happen. </p>
<p>Most high schools have seminars for parents and children, and meetings WITH the children (and sometimes their parents). I know that my D had a mandatory meeting at the beginning of her Senior year asking “where are you in the college process”. And, at the end of Jr. year, the college seminar included a booklet with all the basic information and steps of applying (it’s SO complicated now). They also have financial aid seminars. </p>
<p>HOWEVER, it was NOT through all this that I learned about deadlines. It was by pulling researching websites and LOOKING at them. It’s as plain as can be at every site. If you’ve been lucky enough to visit any schools, and/or get on their mailing/e-mail lists due to test scores…some will actually REMIND you.</p>
<p>My son was quite a procrastinator as a high school senior. He thought he had applied to 10 colleges, mostly by the common app. He came to find out that two of his schools never received his application. One school, which we visited over spring break let him submit the application when we returned home. Another school, which he didn’t visit, never sent him a letter of acceptance or rejection. That’s how he learned he hadn’t applied! We also visited the college he chose to attend on that same spring break trip. We knew at that point that he was accepted, and had received a merit scholarship. While my son was sitting in on a class, I met with the admissions counselor. He told me point blank that, had my son applied earlier, he would have received significantly more merit money. Ouch.</p>
<p>I turned in my application for Vanderbilt on time, but my supplement was late by a few hours (went to sleep, woke up the next morning, realized that I hadn’t submitted it, and then went online to fill it out) and I accidentally submitted my app to a safety a day late (honestly have NO IDEA how that happened), but the safety already sent me the confirmation postcard that my app is complete, so I’m not worried about that one.</p>
<p>More amusements: Brown extended its deadline to Jan 4th for all applicants, Dartmouth to Jan 21 for some applicants (whom it notified by email). How’s that Real World looking?</p>
<p>Aspiringinsalem!!! Please broadcast this cautionary tale on the parents forum. I love the way the counselors tell you "stay off your kid…it is his process…let him own it…yadadadad…I am not a helicopter mom about most things but college apps–I am all over those scholarship deadlines (general on or before the app deadline). I send email reminders and each Sunday forwarn him of the upcoming deadlines. Failure to not make the scholarship deadline allows me to veto that school as a choice. While intellectually for him getting more $ for merit aid matters, financially he doesn’t really see the pain of missing a deadline. If you plan on helping pay a kids college cost I think you have to be part of the process!</p>
<p>what are you guys talking about?? Upenn/Stanford/etc’s applications are all due in like March for Fall 2010</p>
<p>That is what you were applying for, right? Fall?</p>
<p>finartsmajormom and aspriringinsalem…</p>
<p>YUP…THAT is what happened to my D. But through no fault of her own. It was her teachers who didn’t send the rec. And she actually tried to check on it, but saw no place to do so online. Later she found out there WAS another site to check and make sure recs were received. Her academic AND FINANCIAL safety school was where this happened, and it was for SCHOLARSHIPS (she’d already been accepted). The offer to apply for scholarships were due 30 days after her rolling acceptance. When she submitted them, the teachers had 2 WEEKS (!!) to send their recs. They were late. The computer would not accept them. </p>
<p>We got it fixed, fortunately. But it took her to a place where her safety was gone, because she is in a very good position for these scholarships. There are several at stake. Right now her COA is at about 1/2, due to “automatic” scholarships. But there is a great chance it will be zero. That’s $40,000 PLUS because a teacher didn’t hit a button in time. It was a VERY SCARY time. </p>
<p>This is the ONLY application I REALLY bugged her about. ("You HAVE to get your safety app in, and on time, and everything that goes with it, and follow up). And she did. But then, her teacher dropped the ball. No quarrel with the teacher though. 2 weeks!? How can they expect that? </p>
<p>All the other apps I only bugged her about once she’d used my credit card to pay the application fee. THEN I kept on her to get all the supplementals handled.</p>
<p>I don’t remember these extra deadlines and supplements for scholarships in my day so the complications (particularly for a very organizationally challenged senior) really bugs me. Art schools are the very, very worst…every one with a different deadline…every one with a different way to submit the art…every one with a different essay. Then…there are some that give you feedback and it is a test to see if you change your art portfolio submission to meet their criteria…the earlier you get it in, the more interaction with them, the higher the probability that you will get aid…don’t even get me started on the obnoxious question “list other programs or schools you are applying to in order of preference”…what kind of a loaded question is that? The obvious answer is “My mother will force me to study at the program that gives me the biggest scholarship to get an art degree since I am likely to be a parasite on the parental paycheck for years to come…” The application doesn’t accept that answer…</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Continuing the hilarity, it appears from other CC threads that Amherst has extended deadline to 1/15 for “some” applicants, and Swarthmore has done the same for “multicultural” applicants, with several posters commenting that “they do this every year”. </p>
<p>That brings the list of deadlines-that-weren’t among top schools to Stanford, two Ivy League schools, and two of the top 3 liberal arts colleges. Clearly that harsh, harsh world we’ve been hearing about is hard at work.</p>
<p>Note to scholars of the Real World: some people (very few, but some) apply to those schools <em>after May 1</em> and get in. I wouldn’t recommend counting on such possibilities as likely, but they do show that the deadlines are rarely absolute. Applicants are not all created (or treated) equally. Welcome to reality!</p>
<p>@smiley: your application would be considered incomplete. Something similar happened to me last year when applying to middlebury last year. like many of you, i was depserately trying to finish as many apps as I could by the deadlines. I didn’t send in any late completed apps, but I gave up on doing the supplement for middlebury because there was no way i could submit it by the deadline. So I had only my scores and HS transcript, the supplement and common app were missing, and i thought midd would automatically withdraw my application. That is, until I got several emails over the next few months asking me to send in the rest of my app; I even got an interview. I was still too lazy to do the app by the time decision were released. What was surprising is that I got a letter the day of decisions from middlebury saying that they had “lost” my application, and I could get a decision if i faxed my app by the day after. Since my decisions were…erm…less than desirable (4/20 accepted-UCB and UCLA OOS, and 2 SUNYs), I did the app that night and faxed it. A few days later I got a WL decision.</p>
<p>Lesson: Call the school to find out their stance on late apps relative to your situation. some schools may be more lenient than you think, especially if your base stats are in range of accepted applicants.</p>
<p>Haha I submitted my penn app 2 minutes before the deadline. I was praying so much because I spent the previous 10 minutes continuously clicking the submit button.</p>
<p>I actually submitted my Duke Robertson app 14 SECONDS before the due date…Yep I know scary >_>…turned out my computer clock was about a minute faster than the official one…</p>
<p>I submitted my Vassar application 2 hours after the ED deadline, with my poor excuse being that I fell asleep at my computer an hour before midnight. I submitted my Supplement 1 day late, because I hadn’t noticed that it had to be sent separately. The Common Application website accepted everything, and I was accepted to Vassar!</p>