Not all ERAS applicants created equal.

The latency issue between message generation and delivery to ERAS has been discussed earlier.

As a case study, take the WashU invitations today]

I have noticed similar instances in my emails. In my set up the email are forwarded from my ERAS inbox to my school email. Now sometimes when they get to my school inbox they will have some weird time stamp on them like they were sent at like 2am or something. There is no way that message was sent at 2am, for sure. I don't what causes that weird stamp but it is certainly wrong. However when I go login to eras the message has a much more reasonable time stamp and there is only a delay of about 2mins from the time it pops up in ERAS until it shows its ugly face in my school inbox. I have not been shut out of any date that I replied to in a prompt manner. But I'm not saying that it can't happen. But I think it is more a function of the individual's email having an issue in retrieving the message from ERAS, than a latency from the program's message getting to ERAS. I would certainly wager that all applicants will receive the message in their ERAS message center at about the same times. On a side not our dean specifically warned us about using a third party email provider other than our school email because there had been issues in the past with messages not being forwarded properly. So it is quite possible that if you are using gmail, or hotmail or whatever that that may be the source of the problem. At least that is what I think.