<p>Hey I submitted my Common App to Yale at 5:00pm on 12/31/10. I just got an email saying that it was downloaded 17 minutes ago. And on the Common app it says downloaded 01/01/11. Will this be considered late, or is this normal?</p>
<p>I believe you have until 1/01/11 at 12PM EST to submit your CommonApp. You’re application is definitely not late, but 31 hours early! :)</p>
<p>Wait is Yale’s deadline 12/31 or 1/01?
Anyways no matter what it’s not going to be considered late.</p>
<p>The downloaded note is in reference to when the school took delivery of the Common App file from Common App.</p>
<p>Some schools download manually. Some school have a scheduled delivery service set up. Regardless, the time you submitted is important. The time your app was downloaded is now. </p>
<p>If you applied to a school that manually downloads applications from Common App, you probably won’t see that download note until offices open on Monday. There is no need to worry about this and whether your school manually downloads or uses the scheduled delivery service is not important.</p>
<p>Thank You.</p>