<p>um...whaat? this is ok for online appers. But how can we paper appers mail on a Jan 2 deadline if Jan 2 is a Sunday?</p>
<p>I'd go a day early, no problem, except here, the day before and the day before that are public holidays. </p>
<p>So I have to mail out on Dec 30 for a Jan 2 deadline? Someone correct me! please!</p>
<p>December 31st (remember 31 days in December, thank God). I know, this seems like a push. However: Online applications can be submitted whenever. Yale, at the least, has pushed its deadline back to the 4th.</p>
<p>Personally, I'd submit it online, but if you want mail, just get it done by New Year's Eve.</p>
<p>hehe, nice yale : )...but yale's app is easier than pton's by far. </p>
<p>i can't do online thingos, nickleby, i have never in my life been good with word limits. it's terrible.</p>
<p>The online app doesn't truncate even if you go over, so don't worry about word limits. It's definitely easier to do online.</p>
<p>it truncates it once you click "save". i had the unpleasant experience of thinking that my essay fit until i went back to review it and noticed a lot missing.</p>
<p>I'd never advise an applicant to mail an application after the required date, but the reality is that virtually every elite college is pretty generous in accepting apps that are reasonably close to the deadline. After all, even properly mailed apps will dribble in due to the vagaries of the mail system, and there's no benefit to the school in arbitrarily rejecting an app. Not only might they pass up an outstanding student, but they'd lose the fee and, most importantly, the ability to count the applicant in their selectivity statistics.</p>
<p>It didn't truncate mine.</p>
<p>EDIT: btw, I used the Princeton app, not the common app, ca is probably different. I still feel like a failure that I couldn't figure out the common app.</p>
<p>prettyfish, me neither. we can both by failures.</p>
<p>So I can submit the pton app online, common app by paper? Yes, no? That would help lots.</p>
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lol. the latest johns hopkins mail came attached with a copy of the application and it was half-filled with my info! AND they said they'd be happy to waive the application fee without me even asking for it. :D</p>
<p>What apps do you guys know that have to be submitted by mail? This would push up their deadlines.</p>