<p>Because my parents were on vacation during the new year, I got my friend to pay for my application. Thing is, for UChicago, payment was after clicking the "Submit Application" button, so once she had paid I assumed that it was an all-in-one thing, that the application would be submitted as well with the payment. </p>
<p>Turns out that there was an extra step of clicking something else to submit after payment (i didn't see the screen so I don't know what it looked like), and I didn't discover that I hadn't submitted it until Jan 04, 2 days after the deadline, when I returned to print out a copy of my app for filing.</p>
<p>what should I do? Is my Uchicago app doomed? I emailed the counselor but sheh asn't given me a reply.</p>