I made an incredibly stupid mistake and need your advice
Feel free to scold me for being unorganised and irresponsible, I deserve it:
Today I replied to my offers on UCAS, however I had previously not found a specific time that I have to reply by on May 6th as there was none displayed on the official UCAS website and previous emails.
Therefore, when I check my mail this evening and see that I have received a notification that I am to reply by 18:00 GMT to my offers, I was shocked. As I had originally assumed it would be midnight. As it was already past 6 UK time, I frantically went to my application and was still able to confirm a firm and insurance choice. Despite being past the deadline.
At the moment what is displayed in the post is what I see when I open the UCAS website. I have reloaded it multiple times and checked it on different devices to make sure it's not a mistake.
I think I will call UCAS first thing tomorrow and confirm that my decision has gone through (as I saw there would be the option to contact them, even if I had not selected a choice yet.)
What I am really confused about is why it allowed me to still make my choices, despite being past the deadline and I am worried now that either I was able to make them but because it was past the deadline this will cause issues later in the process or that it is just displaying this to me but on the UCAS side it looks differently.
Do you think I have anything to lose by calling UCAS and telling them I submitted past the deadline? Might the punish me in retrospect?
Again, I am a dumb idiot who was unable to manage their time and make a decision and now I have to deal with the consequences...