Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Due to a computer glitch. DC was submitting a bunch of EAs last minute. They are upset that one college that very much favors EA over RD the application was submitted 1 min late because the computer went into a spin when they hit enter at 11:58pm - by the time it finally resolved and was able to go through it was 12:01. Is it worth reaching out to someone? Who should they reach out to? Common app? School? Admissions officer who visited school?

Absolutely reach out! Ignore the idiots here. Happened to my DC last year. The application to his top choice school went in a couple minutes past midnight. He wrote an email to the admissions officer confirming if his app would be part of the EA pool and they did. I suspect they are not hard and fast about these things and just count all apps downloaded the next morning and towards EA.

Rather than draw attention to his tardiness, DC waited until the portal set up email came in a few days later and emailed the AO stating that he submitted the application EA (Common App picklist selected) but the received date on the portal showed a date past the EA date and asked AO to confirm if he's part of the EA pool. Got confirmation that he was on the same day and eventually admitted too!

Let's face it. Sh*t happens. If a college is not willing to overlook such minor things, and want to be a-holes about it, do you really want to give them your money?

A kid who submits something as important as college app late will likely be the PITA kid who wants to submit their assignments late too. Why admit a kid like that when there a gazillion other qualified kids who turned in their apps on time? Schools like Michigan don't need your snowflake.

Or they will learn from this experience and always turn their work in a bit early, to avoid giving themselves this stress.

Plenty of lawyers file at the last minute. At my non-lawyer job, people are always butting right up against or even slightly over deadlines. The judging of high schoolers in this thread is amusing. And not all parents are standing next to Larla watching her hit the submit button.

OP, lesson learned for your child. Good luck to them with admissions results.

Take it for whatever it will be and move on.

A good lesson for life.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Due to a computer glitch. DC was submitting a bunch of EAs last minute. They are upset that one college that very much favors EA over RD the application was submitted 1 min late because the computer went into a spin when they hit enter at 11:58pm - by the time it finally resolved and was able to go through it was 12:01. Is it worth reaching out to someone? Who should they reach out to? Common app? School? Admissions officer who visited school?

Absolutely reach out! Ignore the idiots here. Happened to my DC last year. The application to his top choice school went in a couple minutes past midnight. He wrote an email to the admissions officer confirming if his app would be part of the EA pool and they did. I suspect they are not hard and fast about these things and just count all apps downloaded the next morning and towards EA.

Rather than draw attention to his tardiness, DC waited until the portal set up email came in a few days later and emailed the AO stating that he submitted the application EA (Common App picklist selected) but the received date on the portal showed a date past the EA date and asked AO to confirm if he's part of the EA pool. Got confirmation that he was on the same day and eventually admitted too!

Let's face it. Sh*t happens. If a college is not willing to overlook such minor things, and want to be a-holes about it, do you really want to give them your money?

A kid who submits something as important as college app late will likely be the PITA kid who wants to submit their assignments late too. Why admit a kid like that when there a gazillion other qualified kids who turned in their apps on time? Schools like Michigan don't need your snowflake.

DP. Does it irritate you that kids get admitted to selective schools after submitting their app a bit past the deadline?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Due to a computer glitch. DC was submitting a bunch of EAs last minute. They are upset that one college that very much favors EA over RD the application was submitted 1 min late because the computer went into a spin when they hit enter at 11:58pm - by the time it finally resolved and was able to go through it was 12:01. Is it worth reaching out to someone? Who should they reach out to? Common app? School? Admissions officer who visited school?

Absolutely reach out! Ignore the idiots here. Happened to my DC last year. The application to his top choice school went in a couple minutes past midnight. He wrote an email to the admissions officer confirming if his app would be part of the EA pool and they did. I suspect they are not hard and fast about these things and just count all apps downloaded the next morning and towards EA.

Rather than draw attention to his tardiness, DC waited until the portal set up email came in a few days later and emailed the AO stating that he submitted the application EA (Common App picklist selected) but the received date on the portal showed a date past the EA date and asked AO to confirm if he's part of the EA pool. Got confirmation that he was on the same day and eventually admitted too!

Let's face it. Sh*t happens. If a college is not willing to overlook such minor things, and want to be a-holes about it, do you really want to give them your money?

A kid who submits something as important as college app late will likely be the PITA kid who wants to submit their assignments late too. Why admit a kid like that when there a gazillion other qualified kids who turned in their apps on time? Schools like Michigan don't need your snowflake.

Anonymous wrote:Is Michigan truly a stickler for the deadline?

They say they are. Sometimes I wonder if they're not as strict as they say, but it's hard to find anecdotes of people submitting late, specifically for something like school documents/recommendations, and then later posting whether they got kicked to RD or not.

School documents generally have a grace period that schools rely heavily on. Maybe U Mich is trying to tamp down on that.

Anonymous wrote:Due to a computer glitch. DC was submitting a bunch of EAs last minute. They are upset that one college that very much favors EA over RD the application was submitted 1 min late because the computer went into a spin when they hit enter at 11:58pm - by the time it finally resolved and was able to go through it was 12:01. Is it worth reaching out to someone? Who should they reach out to? Common app? School? Admissions officer who visited school?

Absolutely reach out! Ignore the idiots here. Happened to my DC last year. The application to his top choice school went in a couple minutes past midnight. He wrote an email to the admissions officer confirming if his app would be part of the EA pool and they did. I suspect they are not hard and fast about these things and just count all apps downloaded the next morning and towards EA.

Rather than draw attention to his tardiness, DC waited until the portal set up email came in a few days later and emailed the AO stating that he submitted the application EA (Common App picklist selected) but the received date on the portal showed a date past the EA date and asked AO to confirm if he's part of the EA pool. Got confirmation that he was on the same day and eventually admitted too!

Let's face it. Sh*t happens. If a college is not willing to overlook such minor things, and want to be a-holes about it, do you really want to give them your money?

Is Michigan truly a stickler for the deadline?

Cue the colleges extending deadlines.

Apps are still open for submission for most colleges and probably will be until Monday at the very least. Only a few are super strict about the deadline.

I impressed upon my kid that the real deadline was one day prior. Everyone knows there are chances of a glitch if you wait until the last day.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who submits the day it’s due (let alone the last minute) has failed the demonstrated interest test.

-1 disagree

That's dumb as f. My kid submitted a week before the deadline, but no...all it means is that they are a procrastinator. That is not a trait that is disqulaifying.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who submits the day it’s due (let alone the last minute) has failed the demonstrated interest test.

-1 disagree

Anonymous wrote:Pp who said I blame the parents...why? I was asleep and had nothing to do with this. I told DC they may want to reach out but next time submit the day before.

Because you should have made sure they were submitting long before 11:58. They may not have enough experience to know why waiting until the last minute is a bad idea, but you do.

Anonymous wrote:Reach out about what? They missed the deadline. That’s why waiting until the last minute is dangerous. It’s well known that the server gets overloaded on the last day.

+1

Hopefully they keep this in mind when it comes time to submit assignments. My neighbor's kid got a zero because they were submitting at the last minute and 5he internet lagged. No amount of appealing to the prof helped.

Anonymous wrote:op, I would put money down that:

(1) it’s 100% fine, and
(2) a lot of commenters in this thread are overdue for some much-needed therapy

You are my kind of person!

Anyone who submits the day it’s due (let alone the last minute) has failed the demonstrated interest test.