<p>Hey guys i submitted my common app a few minutes late, i completely forgot that 9 pm pacific was the deadline and common app was at a snail’s pace then. will BC accept my app? someone quoted the common app: “All application deadlines are as of 11:59pm ET on the stated deadline day. TheCommon Application records all dates (deadlines, form submission dates, payment dates) in Eastern Time. Schools not located in the eastern time zone may choose to extend their application deadlines to the end of a deadline day in their local time zone, or may accept your documents up until the posted deadline in their local time zone (even though your submission time stamp will be recorded in Eastern Time.) For example, a school located in California may accept your application until 2:59am Eastern Time, which is equivalent to 11:59pm Pacific Time. Since this is on a school-by-school basis and this is not information that may not be available to you, we recommend you submit based on the Eastern Time deadline. Most colleges will accept the submission if it is within a reasonable time period around their deadline.”</p>
<p>anyone been accepted even after submitting an app to BC a few minutes late?</p>
<p>well, can’t offer any advice but i am in the same boat as you. but mine’s an hour and a half late i just totally forgot about it since i had it on a different version of common app. i guess call them in the morning, that’s what i’m doing.</p>
<p>please tell me what they say. i totally could’ve turned it in early but i thought i was going to add a customized paragraph for the school in my personal statement on a different version of the common app. but then i remembered the deadline, so now my app is late for nothing but best of luck to the both of us.</p>
<p>Good Luck Guys!
I turned my supplement and Payments and teacher recs and everything in on time BUT I completely forgot to submit my common app, and I did that an hour too late. Do you think they would still accept mine since all my other forms and supplements were in?</p>
<p>Anyone who replies here can only speculate on how BC will view a late application. Or they can site how an individual case was handled in past years, which may or may not translate to how late applications will be handled this year. </p>
<p>BC will either accept the application, outright reject it, or ding it a notch or two. The only way to find out for certain is to contact the admissions office directly.</p>
<p>On an unrelated note, I’ve been on various committees over the years reviewing applications where the number of applications far exceeded available slots. The prevailing mood of nearly all those committees has been: “if it’s late, it’s out.”</p>
<p>Since BC is a private school, it can do what it wants. If BC were a public university, it would probably have to be stickler for the absolute rules, as there is so much oversight and public reporting, etc. etc. Much harder to catch a break from a public school. Private schools, like BC, are happy to get as many apps as they can to pump up their numbers. As an example of private school discretion regarding deadlines, USC has a December 1 cutoff for scholarship applicants. Its key private competitor, Stanford, told its SCEA applicants that it was a violation of SCEA to apply by December 1 for those scholarships. So, smart, needy kids had to apply after December 1. USC took their applications anyway and trumped Stanford by awarding them scholarships. Now, Stanford has abandoned its practice as regards scholarship deadlines. Point is: if the school wants to admit you, it could care less about its own deadlines, so don’t freak.</p>
<p>I have no clue what BC’s policy is, but if this makes you feel any better, I received an email today from William & Mary notifying me that they would still accept my application until Jan 9 because I had already started it. I had sent in EVERYTHING (SAT’s, recs, i even interviewed there over the summer) weeks ago but then when I got into BC early action I decided I was not going to go to W&M so i never submitted the common app. I was really surprised to see this email, personally I would not expect a school to be so lenient because they receive thousands of applications from kids who were able to meet the deadline.</p>
<p>I think, because I posted nyu and boston college common application few minutes late…
today NYU messaged me that they got my apps, and I just realized that boston college downloaded my commonapps. Im not 100 percent sure, but Im sure we are good</p>
<p>Dear johndoe1992 (and others posting similarly) : Please allow me to hop onto the soapbox for just a few words.</p>
<p>After what was likely a two year process of identifying potential target schools, why in goodness sakes would you leave your application until the final day much less the final hours or minutes before the deadline? Suppose the submission system suffered an outage that was to last 24 hours, 72 hours, or a week?</p>
<p>If you were serious about NYU and Boston College, one would have expected your applications to have been put to bed weeks ago. While you might and likely will be just fine with your application, hopefully the fear you feel about missing the deadline will be the lesson of a lifetime as you head into college. </p>
<p>College is about growing up and taking personal responsibility for your agenda. There absolutely are professors at the University - and at most institutions - who will reject papers, take-home exams, homework assignments, and similar that miss the submission deadlines. All the begging and pleading at the last minute will not change the situation and your hard work will be an “F”.</p>
<p>Think about it. Meanwhile, good luck and best wishes with your admissions and college careers.</p>
<p>Scottj, well said about some professors (including myself) who won’t accept late assignments. Everyone else in the class did it on time, after all. Further, if your boss wants something before a 10:00 meeting on Wednesday and you tell him/her you can’t get it done until Thursday, your job security might take a hit.</p>
<p>Folks, if you really want to apply somewhere, why on earth don’t you do it a day or two early? College isn’t high school.</p>
<p>Dear gobosox : Thanks for your comments. Literally, we were talking about this subject around the dinner table tonight (January 2nd, 2013) and it was nice to see that my dinner table comments matched what I had written nearly one year ago (January 3rd, 2012). The essential sentiment still stands : College is a young person’s first step into total personal responsibility for an agenda. Making deadlines is part of that process.</p>
alright i don’t think chiding students who sent in applications late is going to make them feel better. I’m a procrastinator, and honestly, a person’s comment about my time management does nothing to change my habits.
I’ll call you Dwayne since WWE trademarked The Rock. As a faculty member, I sometimes see students try to upload resumes to potential employers a few minutes after the deadline. The system kicks them out. They are unable to apply. Scottj’s comments about going through the due diligence process to apply to college are as valid as they would be in the job application process. The sooner people understand the concept of deadlines, the better. You surely face them at work. How do you react when new hires can’t get their work done on time?
i just totally forgot about it since i had it on a different version of common app. i guess call them in the morning, that’s what i’m doing.</p>