darth_vader123

Me too. Fingers crossed!

Similar situation. Procrastination and some urgent work in between. Submitted almost all applications on or one/two days before the deadlines. Fortunately I'd sent my GRE/TOEFL scores in advance to most so they ended up getting matched immediately and they processed my application, except one place that delayed it by a week. Don't worry too much about deadlines. For mid/late December deadlines, I don't think they start looking at the application till after holiday season anyway. I think typos are easily forgivable. I managed to get through most apps without major disasters, except the wrong country in one form (which they were kind enough to rectify) and two stray punctuation marks in one of my SoPs. Best of luck!

I would avoid anything beyond a passing mention about interests and writing talent in resume and SoP. Unless your writing is directly relevant to the program you're applying to.

I'm equally worried, more so for the TOEFL than the GRE. For some weird reason, TOEFL scores take at least seven working days to be 'shipped' (what, they send paper reports???!), and another seven working days to reach the recipient. Combine this with the fact that many universities match scores manually, and it takes three weeks for your scores to show up at some places. GRE scores are better, usually reflecting within a day or two of the order. Though I faced your problem with one university, which updated both a week after the deadline, even though I'm sure the scores arrived well in advance since other recipients updated them immediately. It wasn't a hard deadline and I can only hope it doesn't cause problems to my application, but it's frustrating given the time and money you spend on each application. I can't order all score reports in one go either due to financial reasons, and I can't for the life of me fathom why the whole process is so slow given the kind of money they make you pay simply for xeroxing the same report and mailing it to a university. Now the same tensions for two programs with explicitly hard deadlines in mid-January, and I can only hope the GRE and TOEFL reports I ordered today (had to borrow money from parents) reach them in two weeks and that they'll be updated promptly. I may be amazingly wrong, but I find both exams utterly pointless, a huge drain on finances (average masters student in a developing country), and there is something very racket-y about paying for 'additional reports'. Ha, rant over.

Hi, While filling out my educational background for UCSB, I entered the wrong country for one of my institutions (damn my sausage fingers!) and selected the next entry in the drop down. I mailed them as soon as I discovered the mistake in the submitted application. Won't be too much of a problem I hope?? :/ <Didn't know where to post this>