Will I be penalized for submitting Common App 15 minutes late?

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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Hi everyone,

I was trying to submit my application to Yale today, and everything was going well until after I made my application fee payment. When I was redirected back to the Common App website after the payment, the site crashed and I couldn’t log in. I ended up submitting the Common App to Yale at 12:15am EST on January 2, which is 15 minutes past the deadline. However, the website also says that my application fee payment was made at 11:54pm EST on January 1, which is on-time.

I know it’s my fault for leaving it until the last minute, and I should have submitted earlier to anticipate any technical problems. But will I be penalized or disadvantaged in the admissions evaluation process for submitting my application late?

Thank you. Any help at all would be very much appreciated.

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You should be fine. Consider yourself lucky I can’t even submit yet :frowning:

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Have you tried using Internet Explorer? Some people have said that it worked for them. @AcceptMeOrNot

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https://twitter.com/CommonApp/status/550897135705923584

If you’re going to be penalized for anything, it would be for sending it on the 1st

What happened to me was because the Common Application has a clock next to the colleges’ names, even after the deadline, I thought that it meant we could still send it a couple minutes late, which is apparently not the case. I was SUPER lucky that the system crashed or else I would have actually passed the deadline.

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Why would I be penalized for sending it on the 1st? What? :open_mouth:
@OrangeAndWhite

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Lol when I say penalized, I mean the adcoms may think, “Wow this kid left his application to the last day.”

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Oh. Ok that makes more sense.

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Now you know, though … It’s never a good idea to leave something to the last minute like that. Ever. Computers crash, the internet goes down, the electricity goes out, you get ill, etc.

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Does anyone else have any input for my original question? :slight_smile:

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The exact same thing happened to me! Common app crashed at around 11:50 and I couldn’t submit my app until around 12:30…
I did submit the common app on time though, just not the writing supplement. I emailed common app and was told that, as long as I was able to submit, my app is considered “on time” but I don’t know if I should call the colleges to ask.

I knew there is a chance the server would crash but it was fine all night :frowning: i just hope everything goes well

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I called Yale today to ask this specific question, and they said it should be fine. @singgus