<p>Just one more voice whose impression is that this will not result in the non-consideration of your application.</p>
<p>Submitted my Brown Supplement at 11:57 on January 1, but the payment froze up so I did not send my Common App until 12:02 on January 2. I received an e-mail saying everything was received, but the time stamp on commonapp.org indicates I sent it on January 2. Will the reader know this when reading my application?</p>
<p>No need to put down Franglish, kids; getting things as important as this done early is sage advice. </p>
<p>That said, I rarely get things done very early. I thrive on rapidly-approaching deadlines. When I applied to colleges, I completed all of my applications in the narrow window between getting my ‘deferred’ decision from Brown and the RD deadlines. I came awfully close to the deadlines.</p>
<p>But guess what! I don’t have freakouts like this. Why? Because at some very fundamental level, I understand that the world is not out to get me. You just have to ask yourself: “Could it possibly be the case that Brown would set things up for people to accidentally fail like this?” The answer is clearly no. So, go ahead and assume that the world is a fundamentally fair place (which, despite all the admonitions to the contrary, is true), and move on with your life.</p>
<p>I applied to csus, ucs, uiuc, and 14 privates.
done by december 14th.
senior year first semester was horrible for me too, but i still managed to finish all the college stuff.
I only needed to sacrafice my gaming and shopping time, but hey, you need to make sacrafices in life.
don’t attack franglish; procrastination sucks and will hurt you in college ( or so my friends tell me)</p>
<p>seek medical attention! the majority of CC members are not real doctors. i even question the validity of the advice that has been given to you so far, i’m sure something more… medical… is required to help your heart attack! i’m not a fan of this homeopathy!</p>
<p>seriously though, calm down and don’t say you’re having a heart attack because people actually do get heart attacks, you know? wouldn’t want to be the cc boy that cried wolf</p>
<p>if you paid, you’re ok.</p>
<p>The key word is “process”. The application will not be processed before payment is confirmed. Meaning they will start taking care of all the material candidates submitted/mailed etc. once payment passes through.</p>
<p>Did you know that admissions committees do not even start to look at the applications before sometime in February? Prior to that, it’s all classifying, putting all the information together etc. </p>
<p>All colleges accept January SAT scores for example (not that you should wait until then). Obviously they don’t even begin to make decisions before that, otherwise why would they say it’s OK to take SAT’s in January (which this year is on January 28th)? </p>
<p>As long as CommonApp and supplements are submitted on time, and they can open a file on you, the rest will follow.</p>
<p>All I meant was that learning how to manage time will help you avoid some of the destructive “freaking out” stress that you are feeling. This is a stressful enough time without compounding it. That is not to say that you’re not busy and your time is not stretched to the limit. I know it; I’m a high school teacher. But I also know from my students that many kids procrastinate. Especially when the task is difficult and carries its own stress factors.</p>
<p>I didn’t submit the last part of my app until Jan. 7 last year and I still got in. Brown is really chill about deadlines, don’t stress guys :p</p>
<p>Finishing your “dream school” application the day it is due seems unwise to me. You could have completed the Common App this summer and just had the Supplements to do from early Oct-Dec. Everyone applying to these top colleges is very busy.</p>
<p>January 7?!?! wow! you must have been outstanding, or maybe they’re just lenient with the deadlines</p>
<p>No one is “putting Franglish down”, but a little bit of sensitivity might have been employed … say, waiting until after the deadline had passed and everyone had a few moments to reflect and chill before chastising the understandably freaked original poster. But, the scolding was not helpful to him at that particular moment.</p>
<p>Let me put it this way. A lesson I teach my own child and other young people with whom I teach/coach (and my employees, in fact) is this: “When something goes sideways in your life, the first thing to do is to figure out how to fix it or minimize the consequences – NOT to affix blame.” (There’s always time later to play the blame game.) Didja all know that the development of both penicillin and the telephone (oh, and the Post-it Note) was hastened by screw-ups where the misfeasors turned the mistake into something beneficial?</p>
<p>It’s called trouble shooting rather than freaking out . . .</p>
<p>Learn not to knee jerk yourself, or get knee jerked, into a crisis . . .</p>
<p>Map things out and proceed . . .</p>
<p>An hour of planning saves a multiple of hours more of work . . .</p>
<p>Preparing for the next step in your life is just that - characterize it with maturity and composure . . .</p>
<p>Emulate qualities and values that you respect most in others.</p>
<p>Have no regrets and be satisfied with the final product.</p>
<p>Take care, Mr. VC</p>