<p>^ nope. one of the schools im applying to required EVERYTHING on january 15. <em>shakes fist</em> and yea, i really dont understand why they would make the deadline a holiday... it's not like they're going to look at it immediately. but i guess you shouldnt be leaving your applications until the last minute anyway. it's a deadline, not a due date. NYU was nice enough to extend the deadline...</p>
<p>"Because the freshman application deadline (January 15th) falls on a holiday this year, we will process applications that are postmarked or submitted electronically through Tuesday, January 16th."</p>
<p>i never understood if colleges meant by midnight of the day, or by 11:59pm of that day though... ie. deadline = january 15, submit by january 14 11:59pm or january 15 11:59 pm? hmm.</p>
<p>january 15 means january 15 11:59 pm..anything later would be january 16th (obviously haha)</p>
<p>but be cautious of time zones, especially if you live on the west coast, because that could mean a january 15th essay is due january 15th at 8:59 pm Pacific</p>
<p>The bottom line is you never know. Go ahead and submit the app. Years ago, when applying to a ivy grad school, I missed the deadline. I was going to give up, but my fiance insisted that I send it anyway. I got in. Turns out that for they extended the deadline. I wasn't a particularly amazing applicant.</p>
<p>Update:
I just emailed my admissions rep for the school. I apologized and explained the situation, and she told me it would be fine, that they still had lots of apps to sort through. i'm relieved, and scared into always double checking deadlines!</p>
<p>I sent my application into Haverford in October, but a friend of mine decided to wait until the last minute. His computer froze, and he got it in on January 16th, 12:01. However, he later got an email stating that his application is now "under review." Does this mean that it doesn't matter/they don't care about being slightly late?</p>
<p>My understanding is that schools are to busy to discuss why their site was slow an hour before the deadline or analyze details of the stories about crashed computers and printers. Thus they would routinely accept apps long enough for those with trivial excuses to make it.</p>
<p>I'm a current senior, and I chose just about the worst time possible to be slacker, which was right around the time of college app submissions. I submitted Rice a couple of hours after the deadline but I didn't realize there was the "Rice Box" signature form until like a month down the road, and they couldn't consider me until I sent it in. Fortunately I still got in, which leads me to believe that deadlines matter minimally. Also I submitted stanford a day late (I now regret this D:) and Princeton I just submitted due to long and complicated problems with my supplement (everything else was on time). If I'm not mistaken don't admissions committees meet at the beginning of march? (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I'll have to see if I'm accepted or rejected at those schools to know, but It doesn't seem to matter if you're upto a week late.</p>