<p>I was on NetPay earlier today, trying to submit payments for some schools, and I noticed that it said that the "effective payment date" would be Jan 4. I know that for schools who require payment for the submission of the common app, we can just click "mail check." But will the schools get all tied up because we chose two forms of payment? </p>
<p>AND, more importantly, will colleges receive notification that we sent the payments "late?" (since the website says Jan 4 and most colleges are due by Jan 1...)</p>
<p>If you are having the same issue, what are you planning on doing?</p>
<p>Yeah I was wondering the same thing. If our payment is effective on Jan 4, will this mark our applications as late because the payment is after the Jan 1 deadline?</p>
<p>I actually paid with a visa card, and the common app still refuses to sent my application! The deadline is today… What am i supposed to do. The weird thing is I submitted the payments for all the universities and they all have that green triangle pointing upwards. Except, NYU! What am I supposed to do?? HELP please.</p>
<p>I think colleges are lenient on the payment. They just wait and if it’s not submitted, they either notify you and then rid your application or rid your application. I don’t think January 4th is too late.</p>
<p>Because a college required a payment by the December 15th when I thought it was only the supplement, well they notified me and I sent it two days ago and it was fine with them :)</p>
<p>I’m having this exact problem trying to submit my application to Stanford (one of the schools that requires you to submit your supplement AND payment before they take the general common app application). My supplement submitted fine, but I have the effective payment date of 1/4/2010.</p>
<p>I tried paying TWICE with 2 different credit cards and it still doesn’t recognize that I submitted my payment. Has anyone tried the “mail check” option and that worked?!</p>
<p>Okay, I contacted Common App via their online support form and here is what they told me:</p>
<p>“If you have received a valid payment receipt from a Sallie Mae payment (email confirmation), but the payment is not showing up in the Common App Online, please use the “Other Fee Waiver” option or “Mail Check” to indicate payment. This will allow you to continue with the submission process. Your record will be updated within the next 24-48 hours to indicate the successful credit card payment.”</p>
<p>I selected the “Mail Check” option and then my payment status changed to submitted (the green triangle). I was the general Common App to Stanford, and my status now shows that I have completed all parts.</p>
<p>I hope this helps others in similar situations, and good luck with getting in to wherever you want to go!</p>
<p>thanks. what i was wondering, though, is if colleges would be okay with us saying we’d mail a check even though we actually paid by credit card. and i wanted to know if we also should select mail check/fee waiver for schools that don’t require a payment for submission of the common app? i just don’t want my application to be thrown out, and i heard stanford threw out like 1000 last year…</p>
<p>I paid via American Express.
Although it says effective date: 01/04 and has a right triangle under the Payment section, after submitting my supplements to the schools that had 01/01 deadline, I was able to submit common app as well!</p>
<p>So even though the payment is pending, I was able to submit my Supplement, and then the Common App itself!</p>
<p>I am in the exact same boat as the OP. Yeah i’m geekin out. </p>
<p>Here’s my concern: Though you are allowed to SUBMIT your common app/supplement after credit card payment, the Common Application will not send your application to the college until payment it processed. So, in our case… January 3rd.</p>
<p>If colleges really are lenient, this is irrelevant. But I have a terrible feeling that I am screwed, especially with how competitive Yale, Harvard, etc are.</p>