If my EA app is due tomorrow night (Nov 1) at 11:59:59 PM in my local time zone, is the financial aid application for the school (also with a Nov 1) due at the same time or does it have to be turned in any earlier (i.e., tonight on the 31st, or in the school’s time zone)?
By financial aid application, do you mean the FAFSA? Or an actual financial aid application?
Look on the financial aid section of the college website…and it will tell you the deadlines for submissions of your financial aid application materials.
And then…do NOT miss those deadlines!
You are talking the difference in time zones. 2-3 hours? WHY do you want to do it at the last minute? Your bank account or value of your house or how much you earned in 2017 is NOT going to change between 7 pm and midnight.
Just send it in.
My FAFSA is already sent in, it’s just the CSS Profile and IDOC that my family is still finishing up.
I checked on the school’s website but all it says is November 1st, nothing about specific times.
We live on the west coast and the school I’m applying to is on the east coast, so there is a 3 hour difference. We are not purposely doing stuff at the last minute, but unfortunately my family has had numerous extenuating circumstances this past month that meant we were not able to get started on the CSS Profile as early as we might have liked, which is why everything is so last minute.
You might have special circumstances but if you guess wrong and the forms were due at midnight east coast time and you sent them in at midnight California time, those special circumstances won’ matter - you might miss out on aid. Just do it before midnight on the east coast.
And the Profile website is up and running…so get moving!