I applied ED to my top-choice school, but the issue is that I submitted the application itself at around 9:30 and the supplemental essay at precisely 11:57. I had both of them already done, but my dad decided to suddenly change his mind about letting my apply ED to an out-of-state, and I spent four days waiting for him to make up his mind. When he did, at 9:15-ish of the due date, I immediately went to send in my application. Then he had another quick turnabout, and wanted me to e-mail them asking to have my application rolled over to the RD pool. I convinced him, after a few hours, and had to rush to send in my supplemental essay. I got the submission receipt e-mail at 11:57, a few seconds after I submitted it.
Will the school see how close I cut it and look down on me for it? I don’t want them to think I was lazy or having second thoughts.
The problem occurs when the student goes to submit on the deadline and his computer crashes. A couple of CC’ers have posted here that it happened to them.
^ And even then, should the student submit at say 12:10AM, they’re STILL fine!
Colleges spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and labor hours to get people to apply. They don’t set up a trip wire at the end to catch malingers. The 12:01 applications aren’t auto-directed to the “naughty” file.
It’s in the school’s interest to evaluate you. Remember that. The deadlines are there so people don’t abuse the system. They’re not in the offices at midnight holding some auto-delete party for the late applicants.
Your problem is more thst your dad might change his mind again. Why is he flipping back & forth? What is the school? And don’t stop working on your other apps.
