<p>Hey, I was wondering, do Ivy League schools, such as Yale, consider applications submitted after the deadline? My parents were not to sure about me applying to more colleges and my counselor sets her deadline for submitting college materials on Dec. 1st which kept me from even asking over Christmas break and missing the deadline and this deadline keeps students from applying afterwards. The deadline has passed but I strongly feel that I should have applied. Is it really too late to even try?</p>
<p>Call the admissions office immediately and ask them.</p>
<p>IMO, probably too late unless there’s something exceptional about you. Extremly competitive schools (Ivies) have admission rates in the low teens (or below); i.e. a surplus of extremly well-qualified applicants who are rejected and proceed to do quite well someplace else. Applying after the deadline is an easy way to reject an application.</p>
<p>Go with what you have and don’t worry about it. If you decide you really want to graduate from an Ivy, do well as a freshman (and sophomore) and apply to transfer.</p>
<p>it is ALWAYS worth asking politely, although it might help to have a more specific and persuasive reason than that your counselor wouldn’t help.
Example: i know someone art-focusedwho hadn’t considered Dartmouth, then after deadline learned its art center was impressive. She wrote (in February?) and asked if an extension was possible, explaining what she had learned. they allowed her to apply, and accepted her. (in the end she went to Yale. she wrote Dartmouth a very polite, very apologetic letter saying her application had been sincere and the decision had been hard and thanking them for allowing the extension. she got a very gracious brief personal note in reply.)
moral to me is, it never hurts to ask, go with your feelings, just be very polite. the worst outcome: they say no.</p>