<p>My friend’s son submitted his application through Common App. He entered all details - main application as well as supplement. He did a good essay and personal statement too. All of these he had completed day-before and he took his time to enter and review online.</p>
<p>Then yesterday noon he submitted her application.</p>
<p>He got an acknowledgement today. His parents were wondering why he got the acknowledgement for main application - the email said so. When he went to check the status he found that Supplement Application was still Pending status. That is when he realized she had to spearately submit the supplement application, it doesn’t happen automatically, even though the status showed he had ‘completed’ the filliing part.</p>
<p>His parents are worried if his application will be rejected - because he was late by few hours in submitting the supplement part of the application?</p>
<p>As long as his main application was submitted on time, all other supplements can be overlooked if they were submitted late. </p>
<p>So if he doesn’t submit his supplements 1 month late, the admission officers will overlook the late supplements and give him a decision on admission/rejection.</p>
<p>Canes12: He applied for Bell scholarship and so the applicant has to submit the essay and the scholarship essay together by Dec 1st - this is from BU website:
"…Please submit your essay via e-mail to <a href=“mailto:engessay@bu.edu”>engessay@bu.edu</a> as an attached Microsoft Word document (.doc or .rtf extension). For identification purposes, please include the words “Bell Essay” in the subject line. In addition, please include your name and birth date or Social Security number on the essay.</p>
<p>You must indicate that you are a Alexander Graham Bell Scholarship applicant on your Boston University Common Application Supplement by typing EN in the Office Use Only box at the bottom of the Supplement. </p>
<p>The complete application and essay must be submitted by December 1.
…"</p>
<p>Pikachusbutt: I understand your point and I hope that is what it is. Some can become very strict about dead-lines and if one’s application doesn’t make it within the deadline, they can just not count!</p>
<p>I am just thinking if the student should write to them. you think this is not of a much concern!?</p>
<p>BU is too big of a school to be strict about these things. I’d try to call BU, state his reasons for lateness and see what happens.
I totally understand your worries. Believe me, I had exactly same thing happened to my application to a very high-profile university. However, I was accepted on that April.</p>