Common App based on Eastern time??

Applying to College
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<p>cuz I definitely submitted it before midnight, but it says i submitted it the day after :(</p>

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<p>Are you sure? Mine, for instance, says Application: Downloaded (Date: 11/03/2009), which just means that the college downloaded the application the day after.</p>

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<p>Call or e-mail the college with any concern. You would hope that an East Coast college (for example) would realize that 12 a.m. for them is still 9 a.m. on the West Coast. However, if they can’t pull off something that simple, you might want to consider whether they were really worth apply to.</p>

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<p>Or the college might wonder why a west coast student could not figure out that a 12 midnight deadline in the eastern time zone would be 9:00 p.m. PST?</p>

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<p>Well, if the common application web site or schools posted Eastern Time Zone deadlines (which would still be inequitable) you would have a case … but they don’t. They simply post the date. </p>

<p><a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/SearchEngine/CollegeAppPRocess.aspx?s=1100234[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/SearchEngine/CollegeAppPRocess.aspx?s=1100234&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Then the student might want to submit early to avoid the regret voiced by the OP. </p>

<p>Better safe than sorry?</p>

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<p>I agree that it’s better safe than sorry, but that is irrelevant to the topic. Had I known better that it’s due earlier, I would have definitely submitted in time</p>

<p>And, I found out that commonapp does say EST somewhere. Just not in a obvious place.</p>

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<p>And where might this place be?</p>

<p>It seems obvious that applicants will want to work up to a deadline much as a kid works up to a deadline on a college paper or a reporter works up to a newspaper deadline. The point is not how less stressful or better the whole process would go if they submitted it well in advance, the point is a clear communication of what the deadline IS. I don’t think the common app people have done the latter, but I could be wrong. </p>

<p>So, I posed the question to the Common App people and this was the response:</p>

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<p>So, as many posters have mentioned, schools aren’t shooting themselves in the foot around this issue. However, this Eastern Time Zone-centric approach is unfair to the rest of the country. Why should they get fewer hours on the last day to work on their Eastern school applications? Also, if a California student apply to two schools at 10 p.m. one on the West Coast and one on the East Coast, one is technically late and the other is on time. That seems like a fail to me. Not a huge deal, but easily solved without messing with 17 year old kids.</p>