<p>If the date of my receipt is 12/1/07 does it still count as making the deadline?
Within minutes of the review and submit process it turned 12.</p>
<p>And I made the stupidest procrastination mistake ever. I had about 15 minutes left until 11:59 so after i copied and pasted my essay in the box, i made last minute changes, not to mention I had to reformat my whole essay since i processed it in notepad (don't ask me why).</p>
<p>When i was done and ready to submit, i clicked.......and BAM my session had expired. and when i logged in again........it was completely blanked ;(</p>
<p>so it was a frenzy trying to reformat and revise in the last 4minutes... and it wasnt a success. I ended up submitting an app with one of my personal statements not formatted right...... how screwed do you think i am? you can be honest, i already know it reflects my procrastination.</p>
<p>EXCUSE THIS LONG RANT I AM VERY STRESSED AND DISAPPOINTED WITH MYSELF RIGHT NOW.</p>
<p>EXAMPLE OF HOW MY ESSAY LOOKED:</p>
<p>I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for
the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the
rest of my life.
I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life.
I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed
for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for
the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life. </p>
<p>I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for
the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the
rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life.
I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life.
I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed
for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life.
I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life. </p>
<p>I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am
doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am
doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am
doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am
doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life.
I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life.
I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life. I
am doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life. I am
doomed for the rest of my life. I am doomed for the rest of my life. </p>
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<p>thanks for anyone who took the time to read this and respond.</p>
<p>Call the school - explain. Accommodations care made on a case by case basis.
Say your internet was cut off unexpectedly as a result of lacking finances, or tell the truth.</p>
<p>Even then, when a deadline is set, it means you can turn it until midnight of THAT day, so you should be fine as far as deadlines go.</p>
<p>For the essay, if you are really worried, just send it again to them via fax and include a note that the version sent online was incorrectly formatted.</p>
<p>I know you want to beat up on yourself and wallow in feeling “doomed” but take a deep breath and realize it’s not the end of the world. The worst that can happen is that you go to community college for a year, or maybe even a semester, work your butt off for top grades and transfer into UC having skipped the worst of the super large intro classes. Life is not over.</p>
<p>there are problally hundreds of applicants who were off by a minute, ten minutes, 1/2 hour…do you all honeslty think they just dump those applications? </p>
<p>everyone has different computers,. software, etc…and do you also all think that everything gets formatted perfectly at all times…do you think colleges get that sometimes thinks like formatting are out of your control? that the internet and software and computers are not perfect?</p>
<p>Now, I have no idea what they do with applicants that are a little late. But the UCs get a ton of applications. UCLA alone had around 50,000 last year. The vast majority are qualified for admittance, but there is just not enough room for everyone. In many cases they are making decisions rather capriciously, because they just can’t take everyone. Why not make one of those decisions based on who can actually get their application in completed, formatted right and turned in on time.</p>
<p>You can probably tell I was at one time a hiring manager. Once a person was hired I would accept minor tardyness on stuff. But a resume that was formatted badly with typos? Or an applicant that couldn’t make his or her interview on time? (Without a really good excuse…) Well, if they didn’t care enough before they were hired, why in the world would they care after they were hired.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be shocked if Universities thought the same way.</p>
<p>I think if you were able to submit it last night, you are ok. The UC servers were down many times, so they probably extend the time a little bit. They won’t officially tell you. But if they do shut down, I’m sure you cannot submit.</p>
<p>I think you should call the helpline and explain what happened honestly (Briefly. Mention the formatting problems vis a vis notepad, but not the last minute changes, etc.) and ask them if the lateness will be an issue. By asking you may cause a note of your inquiry to be added to your file and that will explain the formatting problem. (It’s not much of a problem anyway.) Of course, procrastination is not a highly sought-after quallity and won’t enhance your application, but neither is it a human quality that is unheard of in academia, the corporate world, or anywhere else on this planet, so it won’t detract from an otherwise strong application either. (Unless, of course it’s read by a pinhead. :p)</p>