5 minutes past Columbia PhD deadline, will I be ok?

[elindy]

Ok, so this situation is my own fault, but I was right up against the deadline for my application to Columbia's Sociology PhD program and got it in a hair late. It was due on 12/17 at midnight (or really 11:59 if you want to get technical) and of course I had a couple of issues uploading one last file, so when I pressed "confirm" it was literally 12:05. I got an email right away saying my application had been submitted, which they sent at 12:06, so it's been received and they took my money and everything.

 

I'm just so freaked out because on my application status page where it shows a checklist of all the materials received it says in nice big print "application submitted on 12/18." Thus it looks like I'm a day late even though it was minutes after the deadline.

 

Does this matter? I'm kind of afraid to email them and bring their attention to it, but I can't be the only one this has happened to. There's no info anywhere on if there's a penalty if you're late, I wish I knew for sure. Has anyone else encountered this?

 

I swear I don't know how it is that I work ahead of deadlines for ages and then still am always right down to the wire triple checking things and not quite done. This whole process has been insane. Maybe getting it in late was a subconscious way of making sure I can't ever relax, because now instead of feeling all happy and relieved that it's over I'm freaked out that I just screwed myself and the hard work will have been for nothing. Argh!

 

Sigh.

[Applemiu]

IMHO you should not worry. I was myself 15 minutes late for another university because of similar issues. We still pay $100, so I hope they won't discard our application for 5 minutes (or 15).

Edited December 18, 2014 by Applemiu

[-hermes-]

I'm sorry. You sound exactly like me. Maybe you could email the admin and let her know that you had an issue uploading the file and that you submitted it five minutes late. It seems like it should be fine since you were able to submit it (and the portal hadn't automatically stopped accepting submissions). 

 

For what it's worth, I've been making a conscious effort to submit apps several hours in advance of my deadlines and still ended up having a meltdown -- one of my school's websites stopped working and it was just after 5pm so I couldn't reach anyone at the admissions office. A few really anxious hours until I was finally able to submit it in time for the midnight deadline.

[elindy]

Sometimes I think my subconscious does this last-minute thing on purpose. Since I submitted just a hair late my brain now has an excuse to obsess completely over something that is right on the edge of possibly being ok and possibly not. So instead of being able to relax and pat myself on the back and go "you're done! Good for you!" I can continue to worry and feel stressed. Ah, Freud. 

[clementiney]

This happened me too. Any updates?

[-hermes-]

Sometimes I think my subconscious does this last-minute thing on purpose. Since I submitted just a hair late my brain now has an excuse to obsess completely over something that is right on the edge of possibly being ok and possibly not. So instead of being able to relax and pat myself on the back and go "you're done! Good for you!" I can continue to worry and feel stressed. Ah, Freud.

Or perhaps a way of crafting an excuse to fail? (psychobabble)

[GeoDUDE!]

You will not die from this, so I think you will be ok. 

[elindy]

They said it was fine thank goodness, so you should be fine too clementiney. And hermes, yes, totally! Now I promise not to leave the NYU app to the last minute...

Edited December 31, 2014 by elindy