Have you seen the commercial where a girl is at a coffee shop counter and she orders a latte. A split second later, as the blog title suggests, the girl says, "where's my latte?" I can't recall what the commerical is advertising but the point is that we are a society of instant gratification. In the world of text messaging and twitter, we communicate at lightening speed so it's hard to wait for things. Which brings us to college deadlines!
If you have applied to a college with a November 1 deadline, pat yourself on the back, exhale and congratulate yourself for meeting the deadline and filing your first application!!!! If your next inclination is to call the admissions office and make sure that everything has been received and perhaps inquire how long it will take to receive your decision, take another breath.
As we attempted to humorously portray at class meeting last week, colleges have received thousands of credentials in the last few weeks and it takes time to process everything!
Sometimes it's a few days and sometimes a few weeks, so please do not be alarmed if you check a website and it says that something is missing. We have submitted credentials for every transcript request (several hundred!!!) we received for November 1 so everything is out. Now the colleges will open mail, download (and sometimes print) transcripts, recommendations, etc. Then they will read your lovely essays. Then they will answer you.
It's hard for me to even write this, but please remember that this Friday is another transcript request deadline. If you have any applications that are due in December, please hand in a form no later than Friday. Examples of colleges with December 1 deadlines are: Marquette, Clemson, and Miami University in Ohio.
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