McCombs submitted

McCombs follows rolling deadline and final deadline for international students is Feb1. My initial plan is to submit the application by Jan 17. But i submitted it today, six days in advance. Am i running ahead of schedule? Definitely not. Its just a change of plans. I want to finish McCombs before moving to other applications.

Last five days have been pretty hectic. Running around recommenders, polishing resume, filling online applicaiton forms for McCombs, Kelley and Rice. Adding to these woes, i am burdened with piles of office work. In the midst of all these commotion i submitted McCombs. But i made few mistakes in the application and also faced some difficulty while submitting it. Unlike other schools, McCombs doesn't allow applicant's to upload documents for the essays. We have to copy-paste our essays in a text box or their own text editor. Whatever. Also, once the essay is submitted, there is no way that you can edit your essays. After submitting first two essays, i found that their text box is not able to interpret few characters. It changes an apostrophe to an ampersand. For example, "didn't" is changed to "didn&t". I found this when i am submitting third essay and made the changes. So all the apostrophe's in the first and second essays are changed to an ampersand.

This is definitely going to create a negative impression to the adcom. I want to put 80% blame on myself and the rest on the McCombs application developer. Since i already read my essays 5-6 times before doing the copy-paste to textbox in the application, i didn't bother to check the preview of the essay in detail. And i paid the price. This is because i worked continuously for 6 hours on this application after a hard days work at office. I lost my concentration and slacked.

In the end, while submitting application, i found that McCombs doesn't accept VISA credit cards. Only Mastercard, Diners club and discovery are accepted. My credit card is of VISA type. My friend came to my rescue. He gave me his credit card details.

Also, McCombs sends the link for online recos to recommenders only after submitting the application. Just another weird policy. Why can't it be like other schools.

Next in line are Kelley and Rice. Their deadline falls on 14th and 15th respectively. Essentially what it means is that i have to work on this weekend. My recommenders have already submitted online reco letters for Kelley and Rice.

Good luck to all McCombs applicants.