<p>My school is on vacation right now, and I am still working on my applications.
I have told my counselor to send the transcripts & recommendations to the colleges I am applying to. </p>
<p>HOWEVER, I just found out that some of them do not use common application.
Right now (Until Jan. 4th), I can not contact my counselor. </p>
<p>Should I just give up on those colleges?......
Or can I send the application first and send their own recommendations forms later on?(after its deadline)</p>
<p>you would probably have to give them up...I don't think Universities accept anything after the deadline and your file will be incomplete..unless maybe you email the universities separately and ask for extensions?</p>
<p>Which schools?</p>
<p>Don't give up on the colleges. While deadlines are very strict for students, they are quite a bit more flexible for counselors and recommenders. Assuming you have already given your counselor Comm App forms for all the schools you are applying to, just bring him/her the additional forms on Jan. 4. Be sure to express thanks and apologies for the inconvenience.</p>
<p>If you cannot find the information on-line, contact/email admissions of particular colleges involved to find out policy for sending materials other than app. Majority of those that have early to mid-January app deadline dates accept official test scores, transcripts, and recs that arrive after that date.</p>
<p>Send the info to the colleges anyway. Most students procrastinate, and most applications are sent on the postmark deadline. How long it takes to get to the college depends on the mail system including at the college. Mail usually goes to a college's mail room and then goes to the admissions office, which can take a while. Trust me: Faced with hundreds of pieces of mail to open and file, the admissions staff can take a week or two to open and file applications.</p>
<p>Unless things like transcripts and recommendations come in months after deadline, it doesn't cause problems. </p>
<p>I have heard directly from admissions officers that they don't throw out applications due to missing the postmark deadline. At least this is the case at private colleges. Possibly, public colleges are stricter since they have to have firmer rules in place in order to be able to explain admissions policies to the legislatures that fund them.</p>
<p>I myself got into Harvard even though I started working on my applications during Christmas vacation, when I realized that I also needed to get my transcripts and teacher recommendations in by Jan. 1 or so, which was the due date. Of course, there was no way that I could get those things in on time because school was closed. I'm sure that my transcript got in several weeks after the deadline.</p>
<p>N.B. Procrastinators: Do not take what I'm saying as encouragement to procrastinate even more. Clearly, getting your application in early is the optimal way to do things because the later you delay, the greater the chance that you'll mess up out of nervousness, and teachers, counselors, etc. will do things as quickly as possible, which could mean that valuable info about you is left out.</p>
<p>Still, if you are late now, but are interested in a college, give it a shot. You still may have a chance of admission.</p>
<p>Can you download the applications to the non-CA schools?</p>