Sending the application after midnight

<p>I applied to the last of my schools, Northwestern, at 12:02am 1/2 because my supplement essay was having trouble uploading. I had already submitted the common app earlier in the evening, and I did the payment right after submitting my application. If you submit an application minutes, or even a day after the deadline, does the school still consider it? It won't be the end of the world is this isn't the case because I've already applied to five other schools, but I thought I'd ask out of curiosity.</p>

<p>If it goes through, you’re fine. There’s a grace period right after the strike of midnight I think, in case the website begins to lag. So just wait for the confirmation email and smile!</p>

<p>Even if it says submitter 1/02? I submitted probably 15 minutes after midnight and it went through</p>

<p>How long until you get a confirmation email??? I submitted my application a couple minutes late too! Ah I’m so upset with myself right now! :(</p>

<p>The better question is why people wait until last minute to submit apps (especially when EVERY year people complain about commonapp crashing on the last day…)</p>

<p>Why? Because we all have our flaws in life. I have worked very hard throughout high school, but my major flaw has always been organization. I’ve been working to improve, and I have, but everyone has the occasional slip up. I hit the submit key at about 11:57, but of course I got suck at “processing, please wait”, and wasn’t able to submit my payment/application for JHU until 12:05. I think that I’ll be fine. I’m still stressing over it though.</p>

<p>^ Procrastination</p>

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<p>^ not the best time to be “slipping up” lol</p>

<p>Well, I made the deadline for 4 other colleges anyways, including MIT. I will hope that JHU has a slight grace period. If not, I will be upset, but I guess that there’s nothing that I can do about it. I’m sure you have cut it close with deadlines before, am I right? No one ins perfect, so you have no place to tell us that “we shouldn’t have waited at the last minute.” I know this, everyone knows this. I tried as hard as I could to avoid this, and I thought that I was actually going to get this stuff finished around 7 tonight. But apparently not.</p>

<p>all I’m saying is if you’re serious about getting into a school, finish the app early. Heck, start working on it earlier. I applied ED, so I didn’t have to worry about the Jan 1 deadline, but my school had strict rules on applications, so I was done with 9 out of 12 apps before I even heard back from my ED school on Dec14 last year</p>

<p>I was able to submit mine right before deadline. The CommonApp now shows green triangles at the page MyColleges for every college. Am I fine?</p>

<p>^yes (10char)</p>

<p>NorthWestern supplement is due Jan 15th. lol</p>

<p>StewieBrownie: Where did you hear that?</p>

<p>EDIT - Nevermind. It’s in the body copy on <a href=“http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/index.html[/url]”>http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/index.html&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

<p>C’mon guys, you should really be on your game, especially with something as big as college applications. You’ve had months to do these; why did you save them for the last minute?</p>

<p>Are you being serious right now? We all know this. **** happens, my friend. I am angry at myself as well; I had my JHU application finished and everything, so I started working on another college that had a deadline Jan. 15. I should I have just submitted my application around 6 p.m, but I didn’t. No one needs to lecture any of us, we all are aware of the possible consequences. Do we care? Very, very much so. But still, is getting on here and posting “You shouldn’t have waited till the last minute. You’ve had months” really worth your time? We all have our flaws; some of us are quite bright, but we have problems with procrastination. That’s me in a nutshell.</p>

<p>Common sense seems to be at a premium come application deadline time. EVery single year, i bet about 100 posts from people freaking out about “Nine minutes late!! Am I screwed over forever???” come up on this and various other fora.</p>

<p>Everyone put on their thinking caps, now. The colleges spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and man hours marketing themselves and travelling all over the globe recruiting. Now, come the moment which determines their results, they become Application Stormtroopers where any item w/o a Jan 1 postmark goes into a shredder or huge bonfire; where every online application submitted 5 seconds late gets auto-deleted or auto-rejected; where they party down on your feeble application fees, all the while having no eyes ever even evaluate you.</p>

<p>Is this how you think it works? Really? The deadlines are for you not to jerk them around – not as some ogrish experiment in torturing HS applicants.</p>

<p>And you can BET that some of your school reports/scores aren’t in yet. AND IT’S NOT A BIG DEAL. They’ll come in the next few weeks. If, by some hiccup, something is missing – guess what? They’ll CALL or EMAIL you or the school. Imagine that.</p>

<p>People forget this simple fact: THE COLLEGES ACTUALLY WANT TO READ YOUR APPLICATION, HOPING TO FIND WAYS TO ADMIT YOU.</p>

<p>You just watch this forum and see how many more posts get made about “OMG, my transcript isn’t in yet! I hate my life!”</p>

<p>Hahaha. Thank you.
Granted, I was definitely one of those people, (I thought it was due midnight your own time zone) but at first i figured it was no big deal, until i started searching online and SEEING every body else’s posts freaking out and not being able to find anything calming or reassuring like your post.
Everything is fine and yes they do accept <em>late</em> </p>

<p>For me, i suppose during the stressful process of writing essays and hoping you aRE the type of person they will accept, its easy to forget that they want you at their colleges too…</p>

<p>How come everyone is hating on people who submit the day of? It’s not your business to be tutting when the poster only asked for information. They’ve obviously learned their lesson about the matter considering the worry, so let it go and help 'em out for chrissake. </p>

<p>I’ve heard of people who still made it in despite submitting a few minutes late, so just look for the e-mail and that’ll be your indication.</p>

<p>****, totally turned in one of my applications exactly at 12am “the day after the deadline”. How SCREWED am I? I want to crawl into a hole and never come out.</p>