<p>I had an app due December 1st (yesterday/today depending on how you see it) that I only managed to get in about 20 minutes ago. Am I screwed? Should I email them, apologize, and see? (It was for a scholarship, but I cannot go to the school if I don't get the scholarship so I have no interest in RD w/o the scholarship aka Jan 1 due date) They're in California so I kinda hoped it'd be on their time (so due 3 am Sunday EST) but, as the Common App site records it in my-time, I'm doubting it. Does anyone else have experience with this? Am I ok? What should I do?</p>
<p>Pease don't tell me that I'm stupid and I don't deserve to get in. I already feel stupid, and I really did the best I could with circumstances how they were. Nothing that I can email and say my power went off/my ___ died/I was throwing up, ust the normal things taking longer than they should've, etc. I have no good excuses. So don't yell at me please.</p>
<p>I have been on scholarship committees and have seen late applications -- even a few minutes late -- automatically rejected. I also have seen late applications accepted.</p>
<p>I know two people who got their college or graduate school applications in late, but were outstanding candidates, and were accepted with merit aid or fellowships.</p>
<p>On a related subject, one of my sons won a prize in a national essay contest even though I accidentally mailed his entry the day after it was supposed to be postmarked.</p>
<p>I think it would be a very bad idea to e-mail or call with your apologies and excuses. Given the volume of applications that come in at the last minute for many college-related applications, even if the institution wants to eliminate the late ones, it would be easy for a busy clerk to overlook applications that are late.</p>
<p>I would be the last person to say you were stupid. I am sure that several of my own college apps were late because I put off doing them until Christmas vacation, and it was then that I realized that the apps were due something like Jan 2., and I needed a guidance counselor recommendation. Of course, school vacation didn't even end until after Jan. 2. I still got in everywhere. :)</p>
<p>The lesson that I took from that was one that has served me well for a lifetime. Never, ever put off to the last second something like an application because whatever can go wrong will go wrong. That's when your computer freezes, the electricity shuts off or you get a blinding migraine.</p>
<p>Do not call. All that would do is call attention to something that there is a good chance they'd overlook. If the time really is important to them, it's highly unlikely they'd accept an excuse that you could give over the phone. The kind of excuses that are acceptable under such circumstances are major ones that one can document such as having one's home destroyed by fire the week that applications were due (something that really did happen to a CC poster several years ago).</p>
<p>on the website for a university it confirms receiving everything (recs, transcripts, etc) on a checklist. if that is not checked off within the next few days, would it still be bad to just ask to confirm whether they have the application or not</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> I had a scholarship app due to a CA school 2.5 hours ago.. I'm in the Eastern time zone.</p>
<p>should I even bother submitting it at this point? My parents will be mad if I don't, but they're out of town so I wouldn't have to deal with that for a while.</p>
<p>yeah. you'll be fine. plus, colleges lose things all the time -- I mean, with my ED Upenn app, I'd gotten 2 different instances where they lost my papers and I had to resend. During the first week, honestly, papers are getting lost everywhere. You have a chance of getting away with it.</p>
<p>It's not stamped as late. The Common App uses EST but California schools use PST. If the school is in California they will expect it by midnight in California or 3 am EST.</p>
<p>No! Colleges are unbelievably understanding. I had the false impression that I could apply on paper and pay online, and when I figured I couldnt and had to send a check, i freaked out. I contacted yale, and they just said submit the check with a letter explaining why you missed the deadline. I did, and now all is good :)</p>
<p>I'd love to do that, but my letter would be like: I stayed out too late, procrastinated a lot, felt sort of sick, got mad because I hate personal writing.</p>
<p>I sent my ED application to NYU express mail the weekend before it was due. It was on time. But my transcript was a couple weeks late. I found out 6 days after the deadline. I had the registrar at my school call the director of admissions at NYU and had her work it out. And apparently it did work out because I'm sitting here in my dorm room on Washington Square Park typing this story.</p>