What Happens When Teacher Recs Arrive Post-Deadline?

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<p>Question: Our daughter is applying early action to Dickinson. The deadline is December 1 ... The college has not received her teacher recommendations or her Q1 senior grades yet .. If the college doesn’t get everything from the school by December 1, will they still consider her for early action?</p>

<p>WHAT DID "THE DEAN" SAY?</p>

<p>See: <a href="http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/happens-teacher-recs-arrive-post-deadline/"&gt;http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/happens-teacher-recs-arrive-post-deadline/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>If the teacher Recs are submitted on the common app by the deadline, then they will download it a few days later into their file. This confuses people so I’m posting this. For the college that I applied, I submitted the application by the deadline but the supplements were submitted a little later, not too late. It is important for applicants to get every thing done ASAP. Anything can happen: computer crashes, teacher looses letters of recommendations, or the worst case scenario.
Additional supplements are fine if they are submitted after the deadline but the best answer is it tic heck with the college, obviously. </p>