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I wrote down all my college deadlines from online (see the picture), and when I checked Common App this morning, the wording on the Stanford dashboard somehow made me continue to assume it would be due Jan 3.
I only realized that Stanford was due Jan 2 and not Jan 3 when it said I was late while I was checking the Common App for another school, so I ended up submitting it late.
The website says they don’t accept late applications, so I am panicking right now. What should I do?
Hope for the best.
It looks like your screen shot is from a search engine, not from Stanford’s actual web page. Plus it was dated July. Maybe they changed their due date between now and then.
It will be an important series of lessons. 1) Always get information from the source, not a search engine result. 2) Don’t wait until the last moment to meet a deadline. There are likely tens of thousands of applicants who made the deadline appropriately.
I was actually done before the deadline, but wanted to review it again with fresh eyes the morning of 
Never doing that again – submitting the rest of my apps now!
But should email Stanford? Or would that be even more detrimental since it clearly states on their website that they don’t accept late submissions?
Common App wouldn’t have let you submit if you were past the deadline. What does it say on the Stanford banner? It should say “submitted” or “downloaded by college”. If you paid the app fee and you went through the whole process, you should be fine.
It says submitted, but I’m worried they will just leave it at that and not download it
Don’t worry! If it doesn’t say downloaded at least a week after break ends (the admissions office is closed) then call and ask if they received it. Don’t freak out.
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Don’t worry! If it doesn’t say downloaded at least a week after break ends (the admissions office is closed) then call and ask if they received it. Don’t freak out.
Ok, thank you so much izrk02!
Hope for the best I guess. Agree with @StanleyCup2018 and that you searched the 2019 deadline rather than the 2020 deadline. Kudos to you for getting a head start on your applications, Stanford really should have uploaded their next year deadlines by then (it appears that Jan 3 was last year’s deadline based on the timing of the update stamp).
Most likely, nothing will happen. I doubt Stanford is going to refuse to look at a complete application because it’s one day late.
oof best of luck on this!!