<p>is it 12/31?
or 1/1?</p>
<p>12/31 as in today.</p>
<p>Before midnight tonight.</p>
<p>okay (10 characters)</p>
<p>1/1/06
Regular Decision applications must be postmarked and in the mail or electronically sent by this date.</p>
<p>^That seems misleading to me.</p>
<p>Key word: "by" means before. If they meant the 1st, they would have stated: on or by.</p>
<p>is that true? I thought it meant that the latest postmark you can have is January 1st. I was still perfecting my essay when the post office closed at 11:30 today, so I was planning to bring mine to the airport to have it postmarked tomorrow (that's the only place I know where they will do it on a Sunday). Did I just get myself rejected, or will Amherst forgive discrepancies over "by" versus "on" 1/1?</p>
<p>couldn't it be the other way around?? "by" actually means "on or by", and if they meant earlier, they would have said "before"? just a thought, but I could be completely wrong. (<em>crossing my fingers that I'm not</em>)</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that they mean by the end of the day tomorrow.</p>
<p>Send it in and I bet they accept it since there is a lot of discussion on what it means.</p>
<p>I don't think they'd be as vague as to say 1/1 when they really mean 12/31. They're smarter than that.</p>
<p>I summited both Common App and Amherst supplement on 1/1 (during the day of 1/1). That's just me though. For all I know, they might not even look at it. I really thought 1/1 meant 1/1 though...I didn't really think about it that much. Ah well life goes on...</p>
<p>gosh darn. Apparantly, the common app goes by eastern time...</p>
<p>Pongo, I just had that same awful realization. I realize that this situation is my own procastinating fault but...here it is. </p>
<p>I submitted my Williams and Amherst applications at 10:45 pacific time last night. Because the common app is on eastern time it says that I submitted them both on 1/2. </p>
<p>Should I call the admissions offices? What would I say? How do I know if it is ok?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>i wouldn't call. that kinda seems like you're pointing it out.</p>
<p>all yall who summited your Amherst apps...were they downloaded?</p>
<p>I summited mine on 1/1. It has been many hours now and they have yet to download it. Just wondering if the deadline really was 12/31.</p>
<p>what do you mean downloaded? I'm getting really worried about this...</p>
<p>i've previously applied to two other schools using the online common app, and it wasn't downloaded until the next day both times. You shouldn't worry about it; they're probably still on vacation. plus, I submitted on 12/31 and mine hasn't been downloaded either.</p>
<p>how do you know when its been downloaded?</p>
<p>Go to the checklist tab on your commonapp. It will have a list of all the colleges you applied to/are in the processing of applying to. Under each college it states the date summited and date downloaded.</p>
<p>Hope that helped!</p>