<p>I was ready to submit my application before Common App froze up for me and I spent what seemed like a lifetime force quitting my browser, restarting, and reloading Common App.</p>
<p>My ED application was ~20 minutes late!! It has the "Submitted on 11/2" mark of shame on it. </p>
<p>Does anyone have experience with this? Is this a big deal? How does Penn think of this? Should I be freaking out? Should I email my regional director and explain what happened?</p>
<p>AHHH!!!! OMG</p>
<p>20 minutes is a long time. And considering that Penn actually e-mailed us, telling us to finish our applications now, i don’t think it looks too good on your part.
You should talk to your GC, i’m guessing?</p>
<p>OMG I feel like ****, I don’t know what to do</p>
<p>well it’s not completely your fault. it’s not in your control when the common app freezes. so yea.</p>
<p>If I were you, I would not worry. There is nothing you can do about it and making excuses would only hurt your case. Remember upenn wants to see four strong years of high school not one month of a good app. If you have the credentials and they want you at the school, then upenn will accept you. The very worst that will happen is you get told that you have to be put in with the RD people and you still may get in. I will agree that it does not look good and if ur borderline it could be a problem, but you shouldn’t worry and just do your best. GOOD LUCK!!</p>
<p>Our school college counselor warned us about the common app freezing. Too many people try to submit their application at the last minute, so next time try the day before, it goes right through. But don’t worry, it will probably be fine.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll call Penn this morning and see what they think.</p>
<p>I submitted the Penn supplement at 11:59 after the commonapp through few unexpected curveballs at me. I got the commonapp in at 12:01. I was rolling on the floor in disgust. Hopefully, there was a short grace period in in the Penn computers</p>
<p>Has anyone else had a long delay when trying to mail in their application? My daughter sent in her ED application via certified mail (from Massachusetts) on 10/21 and it JUST got to the Philadelphia post office today. This means the application itself won’t arrive at UPenn until tomorrow, which is technically after their 11/1 deadline. Since she tried her best to mail her application with plenty of time to spare, and since we certainly don’t control the US Postal Service, do you think they’ll go by the postmark, rather than the date the application arrived and still consider her for ED?</p>
<p>It just has to be postmarked before Nov. 1.</p>
<p>Are you sure?</p>
<p>lesson to future applicants: don’t procrastinate</p>