<p>So, using the Common Application, I submitted my apps to a few schools recently, but only two of them worry me.</p>
<p>One of them I got the application and the supplement in before the deadline, but the payment was in afterward. I do not think that will be a problem, but I don't know for sure.</p>
<p>The really deadly problem is the other college. It required submitting the supplemental (which I got done before the deadline) and the payment before the main part. That caused a problem. Unfortunately, I got the application in about 2 minutes after midnight, and the payment in shortly after that.</p>
<p>Please, be honest. What do you think will happen for each?</p>
<p>Ah, I'm in the same boat as you are. I submitted for one school at 12:05 AM. Honestly, I don't know what will happen. At least you got yours in approximately two minutes after... best of luck! Let me know what happens.</p>
<p>If you get penalized for turning an application in five minutes late over technical error, the school is probably too anal to enjoy going there anyway. I would doubt that is a big deal, and if it is, that school needs to chill out a bit.</p>
<p>If I remember correctly from last year, if your application went through, you are ok. The system "locks" at some point, when it no longer lets you submit. Also, you will see that at some point the system indicates that your app is "downloaded", after having shown it to be "submitted". This does not occur immediately, this is when the college actually retrieves it.</p>
<p>timetravelerxx: Hah, yeah, comrades in misery. Here's to the best!</p>
<p>IrishThund3r: Well, wasn't so much a technical error, more like really bad planning skills. But yeah, I see what you mean. I probably wouldn't get into that school anyway (Brown) because of my horrendous gpa, but its the idea that I wasted all that time and effort and stress on something that won't matter in the slightest, which really scares me.</p>
<p>Sequoia: Well, don't colleges occasionally extend their deadlines? I can't imagine Common Application actually wanting to bother setting that many restrictions on submission for them, but instead they might want to let the colleges decide? But yeah, I really hope you're right.</p>
<p>realoptimism. Some allow a bit of a grace period, others don't. If you sent an app by mail, there's no telling if it would be accepted after a deadline, but if online and you don't get notice that the "application time is closed" or something to that effect, then they are keeping it open for a bit.
For common app schools, if the app goes through somewhat after the deadline, then you're ok.</p>
<p>I agree with the above posters.</p>
<p>For Stanford SCEA, I sent it about 5 minutes after the deadline, and they still considered my app (deferred) - it would be ridiculous for a school to penalize an app for being a few minutes late.</p>
<p>realoptomisim, wats ur gpa?</p>
<p>i need major HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!
so i submitted my UPenn supplement then realized like 2 minutes b4 the deadline i didnt submit my common app to that school because it wanted payment ,supplement and athletic supplement before the general common application.....so heres my problem: i indicated that i want to do an athletic supplement but ive changed my mind and it wont let me submit unless i do the athletics things....HELP ME PLEASE????</p>
<p>Relax. Call the school and calmly tell them what happened with fewer capital letters and exclamation points. </p>
<p>No school worth going to burns your application for very minor mistakes. And yours doesn't sound that bad. If you submit a part you don't want considered, simply call and tell them not to consider it.</p>
<p>Well, for getting into Brown its horrendous anyway. My gpa is about 3.2. Also, I have close to no extracurriculars, and I have no community service type things. I can only hope that I got some really good recommendations...I got into at least Northeastern and UMASS Amherst, so maybe I am doing at least decently?</p>
<p>PHEW!! Well, having some sort of success story reported does wonders for my stress on this! = )</p>
<p>PrincessBella: Um, I would think that if you go back to the 'Future Plans' and select 'NO' for that supplement you should be fine. However, if that doesnt work (like if it is in a submitted supplemental) I suggest that you try to make another duplicate app really quickly following the instructions in the help section, and retry it.</p>
<p><em>sigh of relief</em> MOLTO GRAZIE!!! gosh glad thats over .....good luck to everyone else! =)</p>
<p>You all really need to figure out how to do things earlier than this, in the future. This is a serious problem for so many young people. Procrastination makes for MANY mistakes that could be avoided. Get more organized!</p>
<p>Son had three different versions of his common app going on at once. I didn't realize that the athletic supplement would go to all once it was submitted (or he would have had four versions). So basically there are two division I schools who are g0ing to get this athletic supplement and be like.. ***? whereas the DIII school coaches have all spoken to him. I didn't give it much thought, but do you think he has to call the DI schools and tell them it was in error OR do you think they will just ignore it?</p>
<p>procrastination is going to kill me one day... :S
i'm in the same boat as everyone else - i submitted my Rice stuff at like 12:03am except i emailed them my portfolio (for architecture) at 12:05 and 2 minutes later got a delivery failure notification from hotmail claiming their inbox had gone 'over quota'. what should i do?? maybe thats just their way of saying "you're late, tough luck!" and their inbox locked itself at midnight?</p>
<p>any advice??</p>