Hello Guys,
I am applying to 10 colleges and I sent all of my scores on FRIDAY. I just read it takes 1-2 weeks for the scores to be received, therefore the universities will receive them around 3-7th January. That should be ok, because they will not start to review applications any earlier anyway.
My concern is as following: some universities say they need the application with all the supplements (tests etc.) by 1st of January. Should I write an email to the admission office, or is it ok?
Thank you
I’m in the same boat, I sent some scores on Dec 15, and sent some more on Dec 24, so far both 15th and 24th are still pending.
@Archlion I am reassuring myself knowing that the admission officers are probably just chillin’, eating cakes, enjoying the winter etc. and not going to work anytime before like one week after the New Year’s Eve 
@ARTPOP a lot of schools say they will accept January testing dates so I’m not too worried. And the ones who do say that December is the last date for testing, they say they will still accept January dates but it is not guaranteed they will be received when their application is reviewed so that kinda implies that they don’t really need your scores exactly by the 1st.
If you’ve missed the deadlines, an email won’t help. Either you’ve made the deadline or not, it’s too late now to do anything about it.
Not knowing the applicable colleges, cannot say whether there are issues, but here are things that may calm some nerves.
For most colleges, test scores can arrive after the early January application deadline. There are a small number that state they want everything in their hands by the application deadline. Thus, arguably you could have an issue with those. However, colleges are in the business of trying to get and admit good applicants, not reject them, particularly if the only reason for rejecting them is that something arrives a little late, something the colleges know can occur through no fault of the applicant, e.g., College Board could have problems sending scores, high schools can forget to send a transcript, That is why, for regular admission, most colleges, including most of those that want everything in their hands by the application deadline, have the following procedure: after the application deadline, and following the checking of files to assure all required materials are in, and usually sometime between late Jan and mid-Feb, and as long as the application itself was timely, the college will send a notice to any applicant whose file is incomplete, such as lacking test scores, which notice will tell the applicant what is missing and that he must get the missing items in promptly if he still wants to be considered for admission. In other words, you get a second chance to get needed materials to the college.
@Archlion are you talking about SAT scores?
The ones I’ve sent on December 15th are still pending as well.
This site has been around for about ten years. I don’t know of a single instance where someone reported that they got an "incomplete " app because scores, transcripts, recommendations,school reports were sent into the colleges in mid January. But I guarantee you that every late December and late October (for EA and ED apps), there will be thousands of posts and threads like this.
Colleges spend millions, collectively, trying to get you to submit. They aren’t going to install a pit right at the finish line. At midnight January 1st when Many of your peers are losing it, the admissions people are going to be calmly at home watching football. They aren’t going to be in the office ready to hit the auto reject or delete button once the midnight hour passes.
Please believe me.
And 1) your HS being on break right now is not an anomaly. 2) do you know what happens when something IS missing? They CALL you. Logical, no?
Please breathe, it’ll be all right. Good luck to everyone.
Colleges are used to different pieces of data trickling in. Just get your application in by the deadline. By supplements they mean the supplemental essays and college specific items you need to send in, not grades, test scores and recommendations, which are typically sent by a 3rd party.