Monthly Archives: November 2013

01 Nov 2013

Common App Glitches & Deadline Extensions

A growing number of colleges and universities around the country are extending early decision application deadlines beyond Nov. 1 as a result of the continuing problems students, counselors, and schools are facing with the newly designed online Common Application. Scott Anderson, senior director of policy for the Common App, said in an e-mail to counselors that a number of fixes to various problems had been made and others were ongoing. He also said that more than 350,000 applications, a 28 percent increase of the same period last year, had been processed, and that most students did not encounter problems with the Common Application. While Mr. Anderson and Common Application brass continue to attempt to assuage the anxiety of nerve wracked college applicants, individual universities are handling this issue in predictably different ways.

Unfortunately, there is no master list on the Internet where students can find a list of colleges with their respective early application extensions. Instead, students must go to the individual admissions web pages of the colleges they are applying to in order to receive up to date information about changes in early admissions deadlines. Below is a list of schools extending deadlines as of, Friday November 1st. We hope this list serves as a good reference, but please note that all of this information is subject to change as schools continue to monitor the situation and adjust their deadlines accordingly…

Best of luck!

Colleges that have moved to a November 4 early deadline:
Emory University
Yale University

Colleges that have moved to a November 8 early deadline:
Barnard College
Beloit College
Brandeis University
Butler University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth University
Duke University
Emerson College
Johns Hopkins University
Lewis & Clark College
Marist College
NYU

Northwestern University
Pomona College
Providence College
Purdue University
Rice University
The College of William & Mary
Tufts University
University of Chicago
University of Denver
University of Miami
University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Villanova University

Colleges that have moved to a November 11 early deadline:
The George Washington University
University of Vermont

Colleges that have moved to a December 1 early deadline:
Syracuse University
SUNY Geneseo

Colleges that are allowing students to apply via the Universal Application
Farleigh Dickinson
Hampshire College
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Marquette University
Princeton University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Simmons College
Trinity College
Tufts University
Tulane University
Washington University, St. Louis