<p>Hey. I was using the common app website to submit all of my materials. Today, I submitted my application and supplement. But, when doing a "print preview" of the supplement, it said something like... please submit by December 1st. Am I totally dead for submitting it a month late!?!?! I didn't know that it was a pre-application, because it is listed as a supplement! Did anybody else do this?</p>
<p>Dec 1 was just a preferred date, but by no means the deadline (Jan 1st). The preferred date was so that interviews could be arranged in advance. </p>
<p>If your Common app and supp show as "submitted", you are fine.</p>
<p>I didn't know either until it said that and I thought the same thing. Thankfully it's just for interviews.</p>
<p>Admissions was afraid of being swamped Jan. 1st, since this was the first year Harvard did not have early decision. In the past, due to ED, applications were staggered. So, the encouragement to submit things early was just to make it a little easier on them. They say explicitly that noone will be penalized at all for submitting by Jan. 1st.</p>
<p>not ED, EA - but otherwise, yeah</p>
<p>Okay.. thanks! You relieved a lot of worry for me. But honestly, does anybody think that the Common App website is really insufficient in terms of usability and providing information?</p>