The EA deadline is now in the past, and the Admissions Office is now focusing on pulling all the materials together for each student, reviewing their files, looking at the EA applicants in an overall view, and moving forward with getting ready for sending out EA decisions in mid-December. It looks like we will have about 10,800 EA applicants this year, so please be patient as we go through these files!
It will take about another week or two to match all of the materials to the applications, and the the best advice for parents and students is to just have patience. I just responded to an email where a student applied on Monday, requested his SAT scores and materials on Monday, and was freaking out because by late Thursday, the status check was still not showing everything as in. Now amazingly, I was able to let him know that we received the test scores late Thursday, loaded in his transcript the same day, and if he had just been patient for a few more hours, he would have seen them in our system today (Friday).
We know it is a stressful time (for us as well as you!), but be assured, everyone will get through the deadline panic just fine. Now go have a great weekend!