<p>for your application?
If you submit an application like 1 hour before the deadline, will admissions officers know and look down upon that? Procrastination is a really bad characteristic. And will they think you're not sincere about applying for that college since you didn't care enough to submit it earlier?</p>
<p>that’s a really good question… i sure hope not =P</p>
<p>I submitted mine 2 minutes before deadline.</p>
<p>Some will, some won’t. I chatted with an Admissions officer to a small LAC quite casually, and mentioned College Confidential. Specifically, the crazyness that happened after the first major ED/EA deadlines Nov.1 with many students freaking out that they had submitted their Yale app late. </p>
<p>She quite bluntly told me that Yale wouldn’t care what their excuse was, and laughed when I said many were trying to college said college and explain why they were late.</p>
<p>She then clarified that her school would be more likely to accept apps a day or two late (in the mail) because they were a small school, and could afford to be more lenient. </p>
<p>That being said, I really wouldn’t put it off to the 11th hour because a myriad of things could go wrong, and you’ll be the one ending up calling your school and hoping they don’t care.</p>
<p>Could they look down on you? Yes. Will it carry a whole lot of weight? I don’t know. Admissions officers are human. They look at things in varying ways.</p>
<p>Generally submitting an hour before the deadline or a week before the deadline makes no difference but what happens to too many who wait to the last minute are things like their computer crashes at 11:55 just before sending, or they get to the end of the app and find out they need to have something sent and postmarked (like a counselor’s form) the day of the app., or realize about 30 seconds after they have hit send that in the rush they forgot to change the word “Harvard” in their repeatable essay that they have just sent to Yale.</p>
<p>Stop the fear mongering folks. Yale admissions’ sole purpose is to find a reason to admit kids, possibly you, believe it or not. Thousands of manhours, hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent each year to get people to apply. Why on earth would any disadvantage be given to the crush of 1000s of apps that arrive on Dec 31 – and the fact that they don’t get filed or sorted or all documents scanned, etc. And that’s even before they see if the school submitted materials have come in. You get the picture. Yale is THANKFUL for your applications.</p>
<p>Dec 31 is the deadline. But your app isn’t in the shredder if it’s (EEK!) postmarked Jan 2 or gets electronically submitted on Jan 2. Just don’t be stupid and go way beyond the date.</p>
<p>I know I’ve interviewed kids that Yale indicated the app was submitted on Jan 4th or something like that. They were still treated the same. </p>
<p>If you feel the file readers are that petty, perhaps your assumption of Yale’s “greatness” should be adjusted.</p>
<p>I know it’s a nerve wracking time but if you’ve seen the parade of irrational worry threads on CC, you’d just shake your head. Relax. Good luck.</p>
<p>Hey i know this has nothing to do with what is being discussed here but
Can I send toefl scores late?
I am an international applicant and my application is due on Jan 1 but my toefl score won’t come out until jan 6 so…</p>
<p>Read this: [Admission</a> News : Stanford University](<a href=“Page Not Found : Stanford University”>Page Not Found : Stanford University)</p>
<p>It completely depends on the school though. Dartmouth just sent me a letter saying that they were extending the deadline to the 21st of January…</p>
<p>Guys, I’m not talking about actually getting the application in or submitting it late or not. I’m wondering if they will judge the time of your submission. </p>
<p>There are two people with the exact same credentials, exact same name, bio, essays, and everything, except… One person submits his application way back in September. The other submits his exact same application 10 minutes before the deadline. If you only had to admit one, would you admit the person who took care of business early or the person who waited until the last minute and barely made it? Who do you think looks like they want to get into your college more? Submitting applications 2 minutes before the deadline of course will never be a major deciding factor in admission but won’t it set off the least of warning signs that this person might have problems with procrastination in schoolwork?</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a criterion at all. There’s too much guesswork that would go into the process if an early bird had priority. I mean, I’m taking a while to turn out my essays. How do they know that I’m not just putting in more elbow grease than the person who submitted it in September? </p>
<p>Also, people are applying to so many colleges today, so that even if some people worked nonstop, the time between the first app sent and the last app sent could be two months. If you’re working on a huge load of apps, the last college to get your application can’t assume you were procrastinating.</p>
<p>rymd: readers get to files as they are completed. Often it’s the inclusion of documentation from the school. So even if you finish yours on Nov 1 and your school sends the remaining material in on Jan 15th, it’s possible that a Dec 31st applicant whose school documentation is submitted simultaneously will get read and considered before yours. Given this, do you think any rational person would give higher consideration to one file over the other? Should your Nov 1 application be rated higher? or should it be rated lower because of your hypothetical lame school administrators? Or none of this matter? </p>
<p>Chillax</p>
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<p>Let’s be honest. Yale could give a damn about your application. They want your application fee more than anything else. </p>
<p>The other officers implication was that Yale would have better things to do than listen to everyone’s excuse about why their app was late, and they frankly wouldn’t care.</p>
<p>yurtle: my firsthand experience with Yale admissions is that they are thankful for every application. To equate the increase of applications as a money making venture for Yale misses the boat so terribly, it’s not even worth assailing. Yale spends millions and tens of thousands of manhours recruiting and the evaluating files. To think that the meager fees make up for it isn’t based in reality.</p>
<p>rymd. </p>
<p>I feel - NO, it makes no difference. </p>
<p>Let’s take an example of a stellar/perfect applicant that came in 1 minute before midnight, to make a point. Do you think that they’ll look at all the data, be thrilled to admit, then see that he filed 1 minute before midnight and think “oh, yeah, but…look, he was NEARLY late…do we really want to “deduct some points” for that kind of behaviour”. You know? </p>
<p>There is a line in a silly movie “The Money Pit”. A member of an orchestra comes in and sits in her chair to rehearse. A fellow (“foreign born”) orchestra member, anxious about the presence of a visiting conductor says “Oh my gosh, he’ll be here in 5 minutes! You’re nearly late!”</p>
<p>The first orchestra member says…“In America…we have a name for being NEARLY late…it’s called being ON TIME”. </p>
<p>I don’t think you’d be considered a slacker. Look at it this way, maybe they’ll assume you took every possible second because it was important to you to do your very best work. Good luck.</p>
<p>thanks, that makes me feel better. I just hope all my last minute submissions make it in without problems.</p>