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This is not true.</p>
<p>OP, MIT will generally accept applications that are a little late, up to a few hours. They understand that technology doesn’t always work the way it ought to.</p>
<p>I know someone who submitted his application to Stanford a few DAYS late. He got in.</p>
<p>Question: Does it mean they’ve accepted the application if it is indicated as ‘PROCESSED’? Would they like… stick a pink post-it for >1 day late, black post-it for >1 hour late, red post-it >1 minute late to color-code offenders?</p>
<p>Again, due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, we may never know. So… why bother worrying?</p>
<p>Speaking of which, I was uncertain whether I spelled Heisenberg correctly instead of Heisenburg in my personal essay. If it was the latter, then I would be much more uncertain about my certainty of being admitted.</p>
<p>Yeah you have a point =s I personally had to stare for a few seconds to notice the difference in the two spellings, and you had to mention it to me, so you should be fine.</p>
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No.</p>
<p>I would assume that the application has been accepted if it’s listed as processed, although I don’t know that for certain.</p>
<p>Ahh kay, thanks, I’m at peace now.</p>
<p>OP, don’t fret. I sent in my application about 10 hours back [Yes, I know I’m going to get yelled at a LOT for this.]
I thought I had already submitted my application because I’ve had everything ready since NOVEMBER. Even had my interview in October and everything.</p>
<p>Anyway, I called Admissions and they told me it’s all good, they leave the application open for a few days after the deadline just in case.</p>
<p>The MIT bureaucracy is strict about some deadlines (UROP forms) but not about others. It really all depends. I’d be shocked if the admissions people throw out apps that are seconds or even days late because they include some of the few caring people at the institute.</p>
<p>Haha, I had submitted my early action application two minutes before the deadline and I got in EA!!! (Class of 2013)</p>
<p>yea I was kind of wondering the same thing. i actually submitted my MIT essays a whole day early, but I missed the Johns Hopkins deadline by literally 3 seconds (but enough to have the submission date show up as 1/2/10 instead of 1/1/10).</p>
<p>^^Don’t be cocky…</p>
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How is that being cocky?</p>
<p>There was no need to push on how she got accepted EA, when the OP was worried about his application being sent in at all EA. What purpose did she accomplish by saying that?</p>
<p>Applicants often assume that there are punitive consequences that follow from things like this – that, while MIT might accept a late or submitted-near-the-deadline application, that student might be punished by being rejected.</p>
<p>^This wouldn’t result in rejection though, since it just simply became RD, (I think?) however it sucks, since it was so close to being EA</p>
<p>Well, the OP was talking about sending in an RD application. But I would be very surprised if MIT automatically deferred EA applicants who sent in their applications a few minutes late – in the past, I’ve always heard that students who miss the deadline by a few minutes have had their applications accepted, no problem.</p>