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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][No matter the school, it’s always a good idea to have things sent well ahead of the deadline. [Sometimes things go missing. It’s good to leave enough time that you can fix it if you discover it. DS applied early to all his schools and then ended up with transcript issues which thankfully he discovered in plenty of time. It took a few weeks to get the HS to resolve it on their end.

[b]Every year kids apply to UMD and end up with incomplete applications for the EA deadline. [/b]I think admissions is just trying to warn applicants because there are zero exceptions for late materials. [/quote]

This. The two biggest issues I had heard about were test scores not getting there on time and incomplete transcripts if there was coursework elsewhere. I seem to remember for my oldest paying extra to expedite the test scores because it was on the edge of not getting there on time with the standard window.  With my youngest, there was a minor issue where a summer program at a college where no college credit was earned was entered incorrectly on my child’s end so it looked like a transcript was missing.  There was time to fix it before the deadline.

As another person mentioned it’s all about risk tolerance level.  Given the cost of college, I didn’t want our family to be left with zero in-state options due to an application snafu so I was on my kids to get at least two in-state applications in before the EA deadline. [/quote]

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