<p>I'm applying to WashU's University Scholars program for Medicine. I sent my regular undergrad. app yesterday and I didn't receive an application number so I couldn't send my Univ. Scholars app online. Instead I mailed the app. yesterday with Priority mail. Would I be at a disadvantage for the Univ. Scholars program because they receive my app 2-3 days after Jan. 15th?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>WUSTL pushed the deadline for the app and scholarships to January 20!</p>
<p>sweet!!!!!!</p>
<p>Seriously?! After all the hassle and expense with meeting this deadline! Sorry, but I'm not a fan of pushing out deadlines at the last minute. It seems to me that this penalizes the people who take deadlines seriously.</p>
<p>I agree Indiana91. My daughter worked hard to meet that deadline. It seems unfair. The deadlines are posted months in advance. Unless someone has a really fantastic excuse I don't think there should be extensions.</p>
<p>WashU should have been more clear about their Jan. 15th deadline. Most people assume it has to be postmarked by the 15th like most colleges, but they meant that everything has to be in by Jan. 15th.</p>
<p>When the scholarship information said specifically to read the instructions carefully and understand the requirements, my S did and understood that the 15th was the received-on date. The only timing issue was with the teacher recommendations, since one of his teachers wanted to tweak hers and couldn't return it to him for a week -- he received it on Monday. We sent the recommendations by express mail to be sure that they arrived.</p>
<p>(I'm work in IT and am with a lot of people 25 years younger than I am... so insert the typical "kids today don't take deadlines seriously" rant.)</p>
<p>If they were going to extend the deadline, I think that it should have been done a few weeks ago, not at the last minute. I suspect that they are so swamped with mail that they just couldn't process it all in time to know for sure what was received by the 15th and what wasn't, so they extended the deadline to help their own processing.</p>
<p>I guess it all depends on if you see the glass as half full or half empty.</p>
<p>^^^
Sorry, ST2, I don't see your point. The glass was submitted on the 14th :-)</p>
<p>Indiana91 my daughter also understood that everything was to be in on the 15th. We fedex'd the letters of recommendation on the 14th for delivery by 10:30 am on the 15th.</p>
<p>You filled your glass on the 14th - others have a bit more time to fill theirs. Extra time is a bonus not an entitlement.</p>
<p>i don't see anything wrong with them extending the deadline. i mean, i rushed to have it mailed last monday because of the deadline and because i couldn't afford to pay for overnight shipping, and i also submitted my FAFSA and WashU financial profile the day before - but if anyone had their lives eased by the extra 5 days, then more power to them. just because i rushed to meet the deadline doesn't mean that i feel entitled to have WashU stick to their deadline and have some applicants suffer because of it.</p>
<p>I'm most upset that they haven't been updating applicants about the extensions. I didn't hear anything about this extension until today! Also, I paid a good $16 to express mail my Friends of Music package the other day...</p>
<p>Are you sure that they extended the deadline, because on the site, it still said it's all due by Jan. 15th.
I have a bit of trouble there myself. One of the teachers, who I asked for a recommendation from, gave the recommendation back to me yesterday. I already had the other teacher's weeks ago, but was just waiting for the 2nd teacher's recommendation. I mailed it in at the post office yesterday, but yeah...</p>
<p>^ Yep, the admissions team released an update just today saying that scholarships should be received by the morning of Tuesday, January 20. I wish they had updated us earlier!</p>
<p>Any changes in deadlines, grading, requirements for graduation, application procedures, times for dorm students to put out the trash, etc. are done to serve the interests of the universities that make the rules for the process.</p>
<p>Part of that interest is reputation, and a public perception of "fairness" is a part of that.</p>
<p>Institutions that are subject to US law cannot discriminate on the basis of race, etc. They are also subject to certain provisions of contract law. Do they have to be fair? Only in that they cannot violate the law.</p>
<p>Is it fair to give procrastinators more time? No. Is it illegal to give procrastinators more time?Probably not. If you feel strongly about this matter, send your kid somewhere else.</p>
<p>It is the institutions game, court , and ball. You do not have to play at any particular school.</p>
<p>i wonder if the change in deadline is a possible result of a dramatic increase in their applications?</p>
<p>wow. i wasted $24 in priority mail. I want a refund!!!</p>