<p>I was 2-3 hours late due to automobile trouble. Am I panicking for no reason?</p>
<p>yes you are</p>
<p>Do you mean in submitting them on-line? No, you are not. You should call the various admissions departments to find out their policies. To tell you the truth, they don’t care about car trouble because I’m sure you were given plenty of time to submit apps. If it is a competitive program I’m sure they have plenty of applicants who did submit on time- why would they give you a break? Hopefully it all works out for you. Good luck!</p>
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<p>I don’t subscribe to harsh deadline theory as takeitallin suggests. The colleges break their back and spend tons of $ to get in great applications. I few hours (or dare I say, a day or two) should not get one to the auto-reject pile. </p>
<p>They WANT applications. They don’t want people abusing their deadlines but they aren’t heartless ■■■■■■ with a thumb on the delete button for every doc that arrives at 12:01AM nor do they have a blazing bonfire or industrial shredder outside the office for every document that’s not postmarked by the due date.</p>
<p>Regardless:* this inquiry will be repeated 50-bajillion times between EA/ED deadlines and Jan 1st. I’m amazed the site doesn’t crash with the number of “OMIGOSH! I’m screwed! I submited 2 minutes too late” posts that will innundate this forum and others.*</p>
<p>If you are basing your “lateness” off the common app’s clock, most likely you weren’t even late. It keeps track based on GMT, not local college time. In any event, T26E4 is correct about your situation. This year’s common app difficulties have led colleges to be more lenient than normal about app submissions. Even in a normal year being a couple hours late would not be a concern. Certainly being two or three hours late with your early app this year will not disadvantage you in any way.</p>
<p>That said, colleges are completely within their rights to reject any application that comes in even 1 second after the deadline. They don’t have to be nice. Why are you cutting it so close? It’s not like you’re on a marathon to get 12 apps done after being rejected ED from your favorite school, and this is app 12 - this is one app that you’ve known about the deadline for months. Turn it in early!</p>
<p>To MrMom62:
I was not just applying to one college: I applied to 7 early. 2 were Ivies, one was Stanford, one was Princeton, etc. To be honest, it did feel like a marathon, since I had to procure my parents’ taxes, since they were irresponsible with them and could not speak English. Sorry for my white lie: it was not automobile trouble. It was faxing issues to Stanford and USC. I finished all my applications; I just had to click submit. I was planning on taking one last look, but the faxing machine literally took 10 hours to fax 5 schools (the other two had alternative procedures). With that said, I am also late for Stanford’s financial aid. The line has been busy for some time now. Will there be any repercussions from that?</p>
<p>You appled Early Action to Stanford and Princeton? Did you not read where you are prohibited from applying to ANY other private colleges’ EA/ED program.</p>
<p>If you’ve applied to either Stanford and/or Princeton under their RESTRICTED Early Action program plus other private colleges’ EA programs, you’ve violated the terms of Princeton and Stanford already. You have bigger things to correct than just calling Stanford Fin Aid.</p>
<p>Unless you withdraw the EA application status of all your private colleges and either Princeton OR Stanford, you’re in violation.</p>
<p>Fax? What is this, 1988? Who faxes anymore? Apparently a lot of people if the line is busy. Try scan to PDF and email.</p>
<p>I have no idea if there will be repercussions. Talk to your GC and see if they can smooth things out. That’s what they’re there for. They have the relationships that can often fix things like this, or at least make sure no damage has been done. But don’t be surprised if at least a few of them put you in the RD pile.</p>
<p>Just saw T26E4’s message. Get yourself down to GC’s office immediately. How did they even let you do this? GCs are supposed to prevent this sort of thing, unless you went completely around them.</p>
<p>I am a QuestBridge finalist. I can choose 8 out of 33 partner colleges, which includes Stanford and Princeton. without any restrictions. On Stanford’s coversheet for QuestBridge financial aid, it says either fax or mail only.</p>
<p>You should contact colleges to determine actual policy on whether you might be considered too late. Most tend to be generous and accept applications that arrive after 11:59 p.m. of the due date and before the office opens in the morning but there could be exceptions and any college could decide to do otherwise in any given year.</p>
<p>I am not at all familiar with how Questbridge works, but looking at their website, I get a bad feeling this is still messed up. </p>
<p>Any Questbridge experts out there?</p>
<p>QuestBridge gives you far more generous application rules than regular students - such as applying to multiple restricted early programs. Your application is likely being considered in a category separate from other students. Colleges are bending over backwards to get you to apply and giving you every advantage possible. It would be absurd for them to now decide to reject you (or even marginally penalize you) due to a minor technical hiccup.</p>
<p>Usual ED, SCEA rules are inapplicable with Questbridge finalist, who lists up to 8 match colleges and can apply early to all 8 and is treated as applying ED to all of them and if accepted by one or more must attend highest one that accepts him on his list. The exception is that if Stanford, Princeton, MIT, and/or Yale are listed and if he is accepted by one of those he is not actually required to attend that one but can apply regular elsewhere and wait to decide until May 1. Applicant is prohibited from applying EA or ED to any college outside of the 8 he lists as a match.</p>
<p>My college counselor said that colleges are especially lenient this year with late apps because of the commonapp.</p>
<p>I sent my application late to an Ivy by a day, since my fee payment wouldn’t go through, and they still got it all right.</p>
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<p>Sounds like they made it very clear, and you might be screwed, if they choose to enforce it. They can do that - they’re Stanford.</p>
<p>OP, contact your GC ASAP and have them contact the schools where the application material was sent late. They might be able to smooth things over and let you know whether everything is okay. At least you’ll know where you stand, and won’t spend the next few weeks wondering.</p>
<p>Given that it was less than 24 hours, you should probably be okay. Only next time, give us the whole story up front - it’s not easy to give advice with only half or even an incorrect version of the problem.</p>
<p>You signed up for this. You knew it would be due at this time. Pray to college admissions deities for leniency. :P</p>
<p>FWIW, I am somewhat in the middle here.</p>
<p>I think some (several) schools, if contacted and explained to, might allow a little flexibility in deadlines.</p>
<p>On the other hand, late due to automobile trouble is still just an excuse akin to the dog ate my homework.</p>
<p>Everyone has known for a very long time what the deadlines are. Factoring in possible delays, whether it be weather, car trouble, the reliability of the Internet, or a pet’s culinary desires, is part of the planning and the process.</p>
<p>Better to learn that sooner rather than later.</p>