<p>There are several postings on another CC forum about the January 1 deadline and I'm beginning to doubt what I thought I knew: If your deadline is 1/1 and your application is postmarked (or the 'submit' button has been pressed for online apps) by 11:59 PM on January 1, 2007, you are in good shape. Is this much accurate?</p>
<p>Teacher recs, transcripts, etc. can trickle in within the next few days. It's very unlikely that a school will not consider an application if the h.s. info isn't included with the application. </p>
<p>I have read that UVA (and maybe other schools) moved their deadline to 1/2, presumably to accomodate the fact that 1/1 and 12/31 are postal holidays. Seems to make sense. Hmmmmm...why aren't there more examples of this kind of common sense in the college application world?!</p>
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<p>Colleges expect students to be responsible enough to know when the deadline is and have everything turned in by that date.</p>
<p>Just becuase Jan. 1st is the deadline, it doesn't mean one can't turn stuff in in August. The deadline is an absolute maximum date to turn things in.</p>
<p>Quite honestly, if I were an admissions rep, I would reject all those who submit their app on the deadline date. But college admissions is another form of politics and I don't want to get into that.</p>
<p>"Quite honestly, if I were an admissions rep, I would reject all those who submit their app on the deadline date. But college admissions is another form of politics and I don't want to get into that."</p>
<p>Wow, that's the stupidest thing I've heard in a while.</p>
<p>Just think about it. Would you want to accept a kid that submitted his app 2 min before 11:59 on the day of the deadline. People have a good 3 months to submit the app and people wait at the very last second to turn it in. And you call me stupid?</p>
<p>Exactly, they have all that time to turn it in. Who cares when? There's always got to be a last day. Some people want to perfect their applications by waiting until the very last minute.</p>
<p>That's hardly stupid. If I was an admissions officer, I too would reject the applicants who left their essays, applications, etc. to the "last minute" (literally in some cases).</p>
<p>Many of the kids who are desperately completing applications this weekend didn't do them earlier because they were hoping to be accepted to some other school ED/EA. I suppose their strategy of waiting until the ED/EA decisions came out could be called procrastination, but on the other hand, if the ED/EA decision had been favorable, they would never have had to fill out those other applications at all. How would a kid feel if he actually completed all those other applications, got accepted ED, and then realized that he had written a dozen unnecessary essays?</p>
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<p>What a great idea! Have a published due date for losers, who would be automatically rejected, and a secret due date for cool people who do things early! Just the thing to punish stupid applicants who believe that "due date" means "due date"! Brilliant! I can see the IRS applying this, too -- the secret due date for tax returns would be March 15, and anyone who files after that would be audited! Visa applications and other paperwork for people in the US from overseas would be due 60 days before the published date, and anyone who filed after that would be automatically deported! And think of the revenue opportunities for various government agencies. The renewal date of your driver's license would be some random number from 30 to 90 days earlier than the date on the license, and there would be an automatic $250 fine for missing the secret date! </p>
<p>Turning in things on the day of the deadline certainly does not indicate procrastination in all cases. Some people are perfectionists who take all the time available to think things over and revise. Sometimes those last minute revisions make all the difference :-)</p>
<p>In my mind, it's simply human nature to wait as long as possible to do something that we dread. I certainly don't think it should reflect poorly on the applicant who waits until the last minute. If it's my money being invested, maybe I want to hang onto that 'chunk of change' as long as I can!! After all, there'll be no return for my investment until April 1...</p>
<p>Kinda late now to realize that Jan. 2 is a postal holiday as well! I'd read that, in order to honor President Ford's memory, Jan.2 would be a holiday for all non-essential government offices, just didn't know the PO is considered non-essential! Wonder if schools will be hard-nosed about that deadline?</p>
<p>Washdad: taxes and college admissions are two different things.</p>
<p>People nowadays apply to a school "just for the hell of it." People no longer look at colleges based off the opportunities that it will give them in, but instead, they apply just to get admitted to a "selective" university. </p>
<p>I mean look at all the people on CC applying to more than 10 schools and all the threads that pop up saying that they are screwed becuase the deadline is approaching. College no longer looks at the personal aspects in an applicant (in my opinion) but instead try to find a "selective" pool of applicants to increase the schools rankings.</p>
<p>I am sorry for all the disputed and what not. I am just trying to get over my ED rejection from a college. I really wanted to get in to that school becuase I felt that I could really succeed and excel there...</p>
<p>My D has been turning her applications in close to the due dates. She purposely postponed completing her applications, especially the "Why here?" questions, until after we visited. In some cases, those visits didn't even happen till close to the due dates. By waiting, she was able to answer questions thoughtfully and specifically. Since she actually ruled out several schools after the visits, I don't blame her a bit for not wanting to crunch out the applications ahead of time just to get them done.</p>
<p>As it happened, her flow chart of schools allowed her to concentrate on one or two schools at a time. The ones due Dec 1. The ones due Dec 30. The ones due Jan 15. And so on. But it means that each application gets done in a small window of time. And guess what? Filling out college applications is not the sum total of her life. Even if it feels like it sometimes.</p>
<p>Her visits were late because we lived out of the country until August, then had to work on cultural adjustment to a new school, moving, and all that other time consuming stuff. Her HS limits the number of days she can miss. I could list a page of excuses, but the short answer is she's doing the best she can. I truly wish that if there are colleges who are going to penalize her for believing the "due date" - that they would be honest and upfront about it, so she could spend her time on schools that tell the truth and don't play so many games.</p>
<p>(PS Hang in their collegebound - there's a place for you!)</p>
<p>if the school is in the eastern time zone and we live in Pacific time zone, do we have to have it in by 12 midnight eastern time, or our time?
I really never would have thought about this before, but I read about it on another thread...</p>
<p>Wecandothis, be sure to have the applications in by the school's time zone. Also, as some others have mentioned, it is not a good idea to wait until the last hour as the servers may be overloaded. Good luck!</p>
<p>Nothing to do with procrastination in D's case. She filed on the 31st. After doing all her apps, her interest in another school grew greater, and she decided to apply there, as well. She is now a sophomore there. And the fit couldn't be better!</p>