UC Application is Due Monday!
Keep in mind the deadline for the UC Application is 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on December 2 (translation: Monday night, just before midnight).
Are you just scrambling to complete your UC Application now? Find a list of everything you need to formulate a competitive freshman or transfer application.
Before you submit the UC Application, go over it thoroughly by clicking on the “Print version” button on the “Review & submit” page to see the entire application. Ask a parent, a guardian, your counselor, or a teacher to look through everything to catch errors you may have missed. Keep in mind that you cannot initiate the submission process until status indicators for all sections are showing “completed” (a check mark instead of “To do”).
The UC Application system should remain open through December 3 (NOT guaranteed, but there is usually an automatic extension built into the application server so that, if you started your application at least a day before it is due, you have until 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time a day after it is due to submit and be considered “on time”). Do NOT abuse this extension; it is meant to deal with miscalculation of how long it will take to submit the application (you need around 10 minutes to read and click through all of the screens to actually submit), time zone differences (Pacific Time!), emergencies (windstorms, wildfires, and hurricanes all seem to love this time of year), or unexpected situations (passing out from fatigue – true story!). Try to submit your application now, rather than waiting until December 2 (and whatever unknown disaster that awaits).
If you already submitted the UC Application, log back in and review your submitted application to make sure there were no errors (for couple years, the application system scrambled the “Academic history” section of some students). Contact the UC Application Center if your submitted application does not match the information you entered.
If you have follow-up questions after you submit the UC Application, hold off until the second week of December to contact me. I will also post something by mid-December that should address most of the post-submission questions.
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hello,
This page is super helpful, I appreciate it! I had a computer glitch right as I submitted my application and had to refresh it continuously. Luckily me application was not deleted, it was just a computer/web glitch. But due to this, I submitted my application right as it became 12:00. I’m not kidding. Literally, it was submitted right when the minute passed. Will my application be penalized and not considered? If so, what woulkd recommend I do? Could I appeal and if so how would I do that? Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
You are fine and your UC Application is on time. You should log back in to make sure the payment went through (if you had to pay) and that your application was forwarded to the campuses you applied.