Anonymous wrote:I am sorry a number of people missed the teacher name submission deadline but the date was posted on the TJHHST admissions website from the very beginning. It is not fair for the rest of the pool to make any exceptions - and sets a terrible precedent for the integrity of the process.
Anonymous wrote:I am sorry a number of people missed the teacher name submission deadline but the date was posted on the TJHHST admissions website from the very beginning. It is not fair for the rest of the pool to make any exceptions - and sets a terrible precedent for the integrity of the process.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:High school Counselors (including TJ) tells their students applying to colleges that do not panic about counselor or teacher recommendations reaching colleges on time.
Colleges admissions have more common sense than current TJ admissions staff and also many people who are commenting nonsense in this thread.
Have you every gone to college? If you do, then you may be knowing that all colleges do give consideration for missed deadlines for additional materials like recommendations.
Worst case scenario, recommendations have some weight-age in the admissions and late submitters may be penalized for that part. But can not take away complete opportunity for one mistake like this.
College give some leeway when teachers are late with recoomendations. TJ does as well. I personally know of situations where the kid turned in the name on time, but the teacher rec was delayed. In those cases, they are accepted.
Elite colleges don’t accept late applications, u less there are extenuating circumstances— like the wildfires. OP neglatected to complete what amounts to the second part of the TJ application.
Go ahead— turn in the Stanford application after the deadline. See what happen.
First of all, this isn't college.
Second of all, while a deadline to submit an application is fairly straight fowrard and well understood, a deadline to submit names for teacher recommendations is not intuitive at all and far from typical. People who have been through this process before or are among a group of people who exchange information about this process (prep classes, high feeder middle schools) are going to be much more on top of this non intuitive process.
If they admissions committee is going to be so stringent about the rule, there should absolutely be a reminder email (or two) whose subject line clearly announces the upcoming deadline, as opposed to burying it in another email. School counselors should be expected to follow up with students about getting names in before the deadline. And the email should clearly state that deadline's are strictly enforced, no expecptions are made, and to be aware that studnets have missed the deadline in the past and unfortunately were not allowed to continue with the process.
I suspect a larger proportion of kids hurt by this deadline are URM's and would be interested to see the data on this.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:High school Counselors (including TJ) tells their students applying to colleges that do not panic about counselor or teacher recommendations reaching colleges on time.
Colleges admissions have more common sense than current TJ admissions staff and also many people who are commenting nonsense in this thread.
Have you every gone to college? If you do, then you may be knowing that all colleges do give consideration for missed deadlines for additional materials like recommendations.
Worst case scenario, recommendations have some weight-age in the admissions and late submitters may be penalized for that part. But can not take away complete opportunity for one mistake like this.
College give some leeway when teachers are late with recoomendations. TJ does as well. I personally know of situations where the kid turned in the name on time, but the teacher rec was delayed. In those cases, they are accepted.
Elite colleges don’t accept late applications, u less there are extenuating circumstances— like the wildfires. OP neglatected to complete what amounts to the second part of the TJ application.
Go ahead— turn in the Stanford application after the deadline. See what happen.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:High school Counselors (including TJ) tells their students applying to colleges that do not panic about counselor or teacher recommendations reaching colleges on time.
Colleges admissions have more common sense than current TJ admissions staff and also many people who are commenting nonsense in this thread.
Have you every gone to college? If you do, then you may be knowing that all colleges do give consideration for missed deadlines for additional materials like recommendations.
Worst case scenario, recommendations have some weight-age in the admissions and late submitters may be penalized for that part. But can not take away complete opportunity for one mistake like this.
College give some leeway when teachers are late with recoomendations. TJ does as well. I personally know of situations where the kid turned in the name on time, but the teacher rec was delayed. In those cases, they are accepted.
Elite colleges don’t accept late applications, u less there are extenuating circumstances— like the wildfires. OP neglatected to complete what amounts to the second part of the TJ application.
Go ahead— turn in the Stanford application after the deadline. See what happen.
Anonymous wrote:High school Counselors (including TJ) tells their students applying to colleges that do not panic about counselor or teacher recommendations reaching colleges on time.
Colleges admissions have more common sense than current TJ admissions staff and also many people who are commenting nonsense in this thread.
Have you every gone to college? If you do, then you may be knowing that all colleges do give consideration for missed deadlines for additional materials like recommendations.
Worst case scenario, recommendations have some weight-age in the admissions and late submitters may be penalized for that part. But can not take away complete opportunity for one mistake like this.