<p>Is the deadline 12/31 11:59 pm or 1/1 11:59 pm? Also, would anyone happen to know what is Pomona's policy for receipt of non Common app materials like transcripts and SAT scores? Thanks!</p>
<p>It is due 1/1 at 11:59. On the Tufts admission blog, the admission’s counselor cleared that up. Tufts and Pomona, along with most schools, are due at this time. Just try not to cut it too close, especially because for east and west coast, it is due either an hour ahead or an hour behind the above listed time.
This is coming from a fellow procrastinator haha. good luck!</p>
<p>And when I applied ED1 to Pomona, they were fairly lenient about the timings. Just make sure everything is sent in on your side (test scores, recs, etc…) and you’ll be fine</p>
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<p>“1/1” means January 1st.</p>
<p>[Application</a> Deadlines - Pomona College](<a href=“http://www.pomona.edu/admissions/apply/application-deadlines.aspx]Application”>http://www.pomona.edu/admissions/apply/application-deadlines.aspx)</p>
<p>If understanding how a calendar works is not exactly your forte perhaps college is not in the cards.</p>
<p>in the spirit of January 1st: “we’ve got an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on offense, #4, 15 yards from the point of the foul. First down.”</p>
<p>good call jkeil911</p>
<p>@GolfFather - rather an unnecessarily snarky post. The OP was seeking to know whether the 1/1 deadline meant 12:00am or 11:59pm. </p>
<p>Teenagers learn by asking questions.</p>
<p>^^^^</p>
<p>I know what the O/P was asking.</p>
<p>Teenagers learning by asking questions? Absolutely.</p>
<p>Teenagers asking questions on subjects that are taught in first grade? Not priceless.</p>
<p>And I am not the first here to make that observation.</p>
<p>however, I think OP’s is a legitimate question to ask when a college’s application deadline is stated as “by 1/1” (a syntax Pomona uses a couple of times on the webpage in #4) whether they mean “by the time 1/1 gets here” or “no later than 1/1.”</p>
<p>perhaps we need a grammarian, unless as you say I was sleeping thru Sister Mary Angela’s numeracy lessons that long ago afternoon.</p>
<p>I think it is a legitimate question as well. And believe me, I don’t hold my kids’ hands, and I’ve worked in a high school for years. In this instance, knowing the exact meaning of a time related requirement could be crucial. 12:00am vs 11:59pm? Why not ask? I would much rather have one of my students ask a seemingly obvious question and have it clarified, especially for the sake of others who might be wondering the same thing, than labor under a false misconception. </p>
<p>As the person who did answer helpfully made clear, others were asking the same question as well, and the admissions advisor at Tufts deigned to provide a response on that blog.</p>
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<p>I’m not saying it’s not crucial to know.
I’m saying the exact opposite.
I’m saying it is crucial, for someone who is seventeen years old to know, by the time they reach that age, what a date deadline means.</p>
<p>It’s like saying – it’s ok for a teenager to ask what’s the difference between a green traffic light and a red traffic light.
That is also crucial to know.
Should it be asked? Yes.
By a four-year-old, not a teenager.</p>
<p>By the way, I explain here why I think so many teenagers are confused by the deadline thing:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/16633884-post11.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/16633884-post11.html</a></p>
<p>And, as a side note, my advice: Waiting to the very last hour or minute to submit a college application is a very bad plan of action. Things can very easily go awry.</p>