<p>I was ready to submit my application before Common App froze up for me and I spent what seemed like a lifetime minutes force quitting my browser, restarting, and reloading Common App.</p>
<p>My ED application was ~20 minutes late!! It has the "Submitted on 11/2" mark of shame on it. </p>
<p>Does anyone have experience with this? Is this a big deal? How do colleges think of this? Should I be freaking out? Should I email my ED school and explain what happened?</p>
<p>AHHH!!!! OMG</p>
<p>Basically what happens is people wait until the last possible second to turn in their apps, and Common app freezes up because the servers are flooded with people who put it off (like you). It’s possible the school in question realizes this, but waiting until the last possible second never looks good.</p>
<p>I’m sure they’d understand the issue, but most people would internally scold you for waiting so long. You’re not really supposed to. It depends on how nice the admit officers are (and how much work they have ahead of them, and their mood, and so on.)</p>
<p>I say it’s dependant on them, because I’ve heard different schools say different things. Pitzer, for example had an adcom officer who talked about watching applications come in on the due date. It was a few at first, then they’d come in by the hundreds close to midnight, until it became a flood of applications and then Common App froze. (His moral was the same as mine: You really shouldn’t wait.)</p>
<p>Like I said, it could be dependant on the schools, and the benevolent happy, SUPERNICE adcom officers.</p>
<p>So do they usually let it slide? Has anyone been through this?</p>
<p>Do you think I should email my regional director and see what she thinks?</p>