<p>Well, my d is making progress. 1 more application to do. There are also some art portfolios to submit, but those deadlines are later.</p>
<p>We are insisting that she print them out hardcopy to review - it's the only way to catch mistakes.</p>
<p>The good thing is, by tonight all of the apps will be done - even the ones with a 1/15 or 2/1 deadline !!!</p>
<p>The end is in sight.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone.</p>
<p>citymom- It's true that the courses don't show up on the print preview, along with term she's enrolling for and payment method. I think the courses are put on the school's mid-year report or something.</p>
<p>rty456 - true, the deadline is the end of the day on which it's due - i.e. 11:59pm on Jan. 1st for those due on 1/1. Be careful about time zones though, as many schools use Eastern time.</p>
<p>Good thing DD did not submit her super reach app yesterday because we found one word that is not correct. Not just a typo but plain vanilla incorrect. She did send this version to 4 private schools already. Oh well! Lately DD has started to preach me about karma/fate, saying she will be whatever the above has in store for her. She also revoked Shakespeare and Oedipus. How Oedipus Rex, could not avoid his fate to kill his father and marry his mother.
I personally think she reads too much, all this non-sense about fate. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>DD hit submit 10 minutes ago. I've got to get unglued from CC and get back to life. It has been quite a ride. Good luck to all parents of procastinators.
She is done with college. DH let out a big SCREAM of joy, which expresses how we're all feeling. Either that he is looking forward to his dinner. :)
Good luck to all of you with the rest of your application's processes! Good luck, and good night. (Sorry for being dramatic, but it feels appropriate.)</p>
<p>Congratulation, 99cents.</p>
<p>Mines still sleeping. Complaining about head ach this morning. The last super reach is ready to file. But had been working on last optional all night, I just don't get it. Told him to drop that one if there is no time.</p>
<p>Now need some help here.
For those schools provide two application options (their own, common+suplement), is it OK that teachers' recomendation went out using Common App's forms, but now he change his mind to use CommonApp for his own application?</p>
<p>Congrats, 99cents! Mine ran off to her team event this morning. She is way too relaxed now that she has been accepted to 2 safeties with merit aid! She recently had a very positive informational interview at one of her colleges, and her gut feeling is that she might get in, too! Big State Research U app has been sent, all supplements have been mailed in last Friday... (Thank god for EA/ED, she prepared those way in advance). She has bits and pieces that she needs to put together to submit the online stuff for her leftover 3 schools. And I'm positive that she will be done today.</p>
<p>AnotherNJmom, I do not think that makes any difference. DD asked for recommendations long before she even touched CommonApp. As long as the forms have the correct name and other identifying info, they will be matched with the right file.</p>
<p>Thanks, BB. This put my mind at ease. Glad the EA/ED works for your DD. But I'm not so sure it worked well for mine.</p>
<p>right thread, huh? We have a 01-01 EA deadline (!)</p>
<p>It should be, or they might be sued? Unless it crashed due too many login. Right now, I'm more concern about our internet service provider, and power. Its been known to disconnected in past.</p>
<p>best thing my D ever did was set her OWN deadlines, at least TWO weeks ahaed of official deadline...why all this last minute drama, I don't understand at all</p>
<p>this isn't the same as turing in a paper, much is out of your control- weather, computers, servers etc</p>
<p>You are lucky, citygirlsmom. Not every kid like that. Guess he is much like his dad "don't plan anything beyond tomorrow." Not my style, mine is much like your Ds....thats why I'm so stressful now.</p>
<p>Congratulatioins again, 99 cents! I envy you.
AnotherNJmom: Just in case - if NJ is for New Jersey, central post office on Manhattan is open all day on Jan1.
My DD is also working on an essay she probably could do without. I guess she should list college essay writing as an EC.
Citygirlsmom, I could say that I envy you. On the other hand, submitting applications on the very last day is OK. A documented illness, power outage in the area or Common App site crash will result in the extension of the deadline (like California fires extended EA/ED deadline for everyone leaving in the area). Sure, it does not mean that procrastinating till the very last minute is safe. This is what I am really afraid of and this is why I cling to this thread. DD is close to that thin line. She has a bunch of essays and short answers, but there are pieces that are missing for each supplement. So far today she send an application to one of her three favorite reaches, the only one that had a deadline today. I hope for couple more apps today. Then she will work on her matches and reach-matches tomorrow. Otherwise tomorrow can be a mess ....</p>
<p>My S just hit "submit" on the Common App. He's completely, totally, absolutely finished. This is one milestone I don't feel sentimental about.</p>
<p>The Common App site is reeeeaaaalllly sloooowwww tonight. And on his BU application, no matter how hard he tried, one essay shows up in the wrong place on the print preview. He added a note about the problem and will get in touch with them, I guess.</p>
<p>Good to know other kids are hitting submit at the 11th hour!</p>
<p>citymom - thanks for the info. Its good to know.
I would suggest make sure submited all super reaches. Then if you don't have match yet do: match/reach-match/match/reach-match/.... leave nothing to regret "what if..."</p>
<p>We are done with all reaches. Now he is working on his last one just for fun. If its for me, I would rather see him geting some sleep, or working on his school project. But nothing I said he would ever listen. lol</p>
<p>We had a good laugh today - after just sending the app off to Yale - what I'd call a lottery ticket type of reach - DS opened the mail and found out he was admitted to one of his state U safeties, which he applied to all of 2 weeks ago. Gotta love the lack of drama on that one! Happy New Year, and congrats to those of you who are completely done!</p>
<p>DS sent out the last two Common Apps yesterday, FedEx'd the print materials this morning. DONE. All the time he spent upfront on his EA apps paid off -- the schools were varied enough that he had a good range of essays which he could use/modify in various forms/lengths as needed. He had four apps due at various times over the past month, so I am glad he did the heavy lifting early. These four didn't take nearly as much time as the first three.</p>
<p>Another good reason for getting stuff out early -- EA/rolling can give one a feel for how one stacks up in the pool. One can add/subtract schools as needed, and find the hidden gems that may not have been apparent in the first flush of apps.</p>
<p>DS's school wants 30 days to get teacher recs/GC rec, transcripts and school report sent out. DS had this part done for EAs in late September and for everyone else by Thanksgiving. No worries there. </p>
<p>DS found it took a while to get his emotions on paper -- it was a BIG leap for him to trust his innermost thoughts and hopes to an admissions committeee. Now that he's done, though, he keeps saying how proud he is of the work he did on his essays -- and has even shown them to a few friends. That boggles my mind!</p>
<p>P.S. Common App was really slow yesterday, too. Took three hours to load/check/submit two apps.</p>
<p>OK, congratulations to everyone. I guess our ride was the roughest. By the morning of Jan 1 DD hadapps sent only to three safeties she didn't really care about and to one far-far-reach. By noon apps went to two more far-far-reaches. I couldn't breath, but DD stayed pretty relaxed and cheerful. Submitted two more apps to lower reaches in the afternoon. I felt better.
But then it got rough. With still two colleges on her list of Jan 1 deadlines, she ran into a writer's block with a short "Why college" paragraph for which she seemed to have a good list of reasons; by 11 PM she understood that she would not finish it before midnight, decided to take a break and to submit a supplement to a high match for which everything was more or less ready; discovered that the common app site was melting down, pressed the Submit button minutes before the deadline (looks like she made it). Then she relaxed and finished that paragraph in less than an hour. With the time difference it was not bad. But the common app site was still sooo-slooooow, that file uploading simply didn't work. In another hour the site was fine, she submitted the app. Late, but today the admission officer said it was OK.
I cannot believe it. Almost done.
In the morning she sent the app to one more school (Jan 15 deadline), has to submit one more by midnight (has to finish a bunch of very short answers).
What is left? Still one more school with Jan 15 deadline (DD really loves it and it the only true match on her list). Couple scholarship applications also by Jan 15. Two schools went off the list (one has a later deadline though).
But I feel relieved already.</p>