So I applied to U Buff and had all my credentials sent immediately.
They arrived and were updated in the portal in early January (a month before the 2/1 deadline).
However, when I applied initially, I requested a fee waiver via CommonApp. By mid january, they still hadnt accepted my fee waiver so I decided to just pay the application fee. Please note that the app fee was the only incomplete part of my application.
After paying it didnt update in my portal and kept showing that I still needed to pay. Initially I wasn’t worried as I thought it just needed time to process.
Then a week passed. Then another week. Then a third week (totaling to 20 days). I finally emailed admissions and they responded with the following on February 12…
“Thank you for letting us know that you paid. We do not get alerted when you make the payment which is why it was not taken off. I have now confirmed you paid and waived your fee waiver.”
U @ Buffalo does rolling admissions so it’s first come first serve, and I’m assuming that my application wasnt even allowed to be reviewed until Feb 12th because of this fee waiver fiasco. Am I basically screwed because of how late my application is going to end up being reviewed?