<p>I posted this in admissions forum but do any of you know whether they boot your application if you get the common app in by deadline but the transcripts are postmarked jan 2?</p>
<p>And any colleges come to mind that have 1/15 deadlines? I know Bard and Hampshire do...</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>no they don't care if your transcripts don't get there jan1.
last year, georgetown had 1/15 deadline.</p>
<p>Salve Regina in Newport RI has a deadline sometime in February.</p>
<p>Muhlenberg College is also in February.</p>
<p>I assume you waited till the last minute to send the Common App, but your guidance dept is closed for the holiday so they can't mail anything until Jan 2?</p>
<p>This is why our high school requires anyone with a 1/1 deadline to submit everything to guidance a FULL WEEK BEFORE Christmas break begins. (This year it was 12/14.)</p>
<p>I don't think it will kill your app, but really, you ought not to leave things until the last second. </p>
<p>Please tell me you're not really going to choose your college for the next 4 years based on who has the latest application deadline. Unless you had a family crisis, illness, etc, there's not much excuse for waiting until December 27 to apply to college. (And if you did have an illness or a family crisis, my apologies).</p>
<p>There are many colleges with deadlines at the end of January or after. AND there are a lot of kids who don't get all of their applications done in December. Just make sure you don't miss any deadlines!! Good luck to you.</p>
<p>What is important is that the student gets his/her application materials in on time, which means if the school has a 1/1 deadline that the student have their stuff (application, essay, supplemental materials) in by that date. </p>
<p>The Jan 1 deadline is not the deadline for transcripts, Teacher Recommendations, GC evaluations/ mid year reports as most schools will give until ~2/15 for this information to be submitted (remember at many schools the fall term is not over until the mid/end of January). Even in the worse case scenario, the college will contact the student letting them know the file is incomplete. The college will also grant a professional courtesy to the GC that calls and lets them know that there are extenuating circumstances for missing the deadline. Some schools will even allow the GC to fax/e-mail the information to the college.</p>
<p>The Common Application website is the easiest way to find out application deadlines for all of their participating colleges.</p>
<p>Momneedsadvice, I mean no disrespect, but I wasn't asking for a lecture, and no, of course I am not leaving my college decisions for the last minute or basing them on which colleges have later deadlines. I had found Reed at the last minute (it has a 1/15 deadline) and wondered if there were others I had missed out on and still had a shot at. Yes our guidance dept has everything before the 15th, but if you find a school you are interested in at the last minute, you are stuck until they open again on the 2nd. And as to your other comment, surely you have sometimes left important things to the last minute. I am not alone in this boat.</p>
<p>Everyone else, thank you. Actually I feel pretty good that I am ready to send everything today, and not on Dec. 31st!</p>
<p>jocan,</p>
<p>Karen Colleges had a great advice to go to the Common Application website, BUT, please double check with the respective colleges' websites. I have seen errors on the Common App website before. With this caveat, a quick check on the Common App website shows the following schools having:</p>
<p>RD deadline of 1/15
Skidmore
Colgate University
College of the Holy Cross
Clark University
Emory
Fordham</p>
<p>George Washington U - 1/10
Grinnell - 1/20
Drew - 2/15
Gettysburg - 2/15</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>I don't know for sure, but a couple of things went missing at various schools when my son applied last year. (One recommendation at one school, SAT scores at another...) They got fixed after the Jan. deadline. The colleges didn't seem overly concerned.</p>