<p>wait do you mean tomorrow as in 11:59 pm Jan 4th? D:
I don’t get why they wouldn’t post the supplement deadline clearly on the website…</p>
<p>I e-mailed NU and got this answer:
“The Supplement was due on January 2nd. We will not be able to review your application until it is fully complete. Please submit your Supplement and any other outstanding required materials as soon as possible. Later in January we will be sending out email to all applicants who applications are still complete. We will give sufficient time then for outstanding materials to be submitted.”</p>
<p>I am going to submit my supplement today!</p>
<p>Just called the Office of Admissions and the lady that I spoke to said that it must be turned in by Friday, January 6th, at midnight. </p>
<p>Seems that there’s a lot of confusion going around. Chances are that they’ll probably be understanding if your application is “late.”</p>
<p>When you mean Friday, January 6th at midnight, basically 11.59 on January 5th? Or you get the whole day Friday?</p>
<p>I don’t think the admissions office even knows when the deadline is…when I called they told me to just submit it as soon as possible. This is a really poor job of administration.</p>
<p>I may be completely wrong, and have no insider knowledge of how admissions works, but my sense is that completed applications were due at midnight on the 2nd. Here’s the wording on the bottom of the PDF copy of the Supplement for those not using the Common App – “Return this application and the nonrefundable $65 application fee (write your name and date of birth on the check, payable to Northwestern University)
as soon as possible but no later than your application deadline.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/documents/UG_Admission_NUSupplement.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/documents/UG_Admission_NUSupplement.pdf</a></p>
<p>Since it takes them time to get around to reviewing the 30,000 apps (?) they receive, they are unable to immediately inform folks as to whether their applications are complete. </p>
<p>This lag time to review apps apparently allows them to offer a bit of grace period on extra components like the supplement, but I could imagine that having to wait for missing components once they are ready to review your file might not particularly impress an adcom, so if it were me I would finish and submit it ASAP.</p>
<p>I don’t think offering this grace period makes them “bad” adcoms, I think it makes them “nice” adcoms. ;-D</p>
<p>Best of luck everyone!</p>
<p>Momcares is correct. Being a couple days late will not matter for most private elite universities - just get it in as soon as possible… stop worrying about the date. They just want your application in their hands so they can evaluate it.</p>
<p>The goal right now is for me to finish it tonight, worse case I would submit it tomorrow. I just don’t want to not be able to submit the supplement if it closes after tonight.</p>
<p>It’s not that they really are giving us a grace period, they emailed all of us saying that the NU supplement deadline has been extended. They should have told us when it was going to be extended to though.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s definitely not a grace period that they’re offering us. They specifically told us that they extended the deadline but have since been extremely vague about when it’s due. I called several times and got about 5 different answers. Today the lady (who says she was briefed about the question) just told me to “get it in as as soon as possible.” It’s pretty disappointing to see this kind of disorganization. -.-</p>
<p>There is no hard close on the supplement as far as I know, which is why you aren’t getting a straight answer. What they mean by the extended deadline is that you’re going to be able to submit your application basically whenever you want, and for your sake you should do it ASAP (because it makes sense to finish it sooner rather than later).</p>
<p>What good would a hard deadline do? “Ah! Mom! I missed it by 5 minutes! All 18 years of work and 3 months of college application work gone because of 5 minutes”. There is no hard deadline. January 1st was a soft deadline… the extension is just to say you’re always welcome to submit but definitely want to do it soon.</p>