<p>CC member tjmom just noted on the College Admissions forum and I thought it was worth mentioning here that if hurricane Sandy follows it's projected path the possible power outages may effect students planning on submitting EA/ED applications by the 11/1 deadlines. Students in the states of Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, and DC should be especially mindful. From years past we know the common app website gets bogged down in the final submission hours. I do know from my son's own experience in trying to submit scholarship apps during a particularly harsh winter colleges would not make exceptions, even during natural disasters. </p>
<p>Last year my daughter was applying EA to many schools and we got hit with the Halloween snowstorm. At times for the next week we lost phones or internet. We traveled from house to house of friends depending on who had electricity/internet/phone at the time she was ready to submit. We also had some problems with the CA and I wound up calling an admissions guy on a Sunday to leave a message but he was in (busy time, he was trying to catch up) and had our concerns allayed. </p>
<p>She was also supposed to fly to Boston for an interview (required after the app was submitted) but flights were grounded. This school worked with us to the point where we had to drive to a neighborhood that had cell phone reception and call from the car.</p>
<p>It was a fun but stressful completion of EA applications but everyone was very cooperative. Given the advanced notice - do yourself a favor and get this stuff submitted sooner rather than later!!!</p>
<p>Did not many schools extend the ED/EA deadline last year when there were power outages in the mid-Atlantic from the Halloween storm? There was a NY Times article that indicated as much.</p>
<p>They may have stringkeymom. My son applied the year prior. The point would be to try to avoid needing it, not count on it, if it is offered for those absolutely up a creek then it will be a blessing.</p>
<p>Marian, I would hate for a teachable moment to cost any student the chance to apply EA/ED to a school they had intended on, but I too am a real stickler for not waiting until the last moment because of Murphy’s law. My son applied to one school rolling admissions and two RD. The RD schools I swore I wanted done before I smelled turkey. He hit submit just before we left for my SIL’s on Thanksgiving day. Good thing. There were a couple of small glitches he needed to work out that he was able to get immediate help (2-3 business days) because there were few other students needing help at that time. If it was 12/31 he would have had a rough go of it and I’m not entirely sure if he’d have been able to submit.</p>
<p>I would say that it might be a good idea to get 'er done this weekend and not wait until next week. Not like the “due date” hasn’t been looming for months and not like there hasn’t been advanced warning about what the weather might do next week…it IS a teachable moment about not procrastinating.</p>