Advantage to sending apps in early?

SarumanTheWise
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:31:10 +0000

As something of a counterexample to the posts above, I sent in my EA app several weeks ahead of the deadline. I really don’t think it matters much except if you’re sending in an arts supplement, in which case you have an eariler deadline to meet.

The lurking variable here, though, would be the quality of your application. Specifically, I mean how good your essays are. I spent weeks writing multiple drafts of each essay for my application; by October I was pretty confident that they really represented me as best as possible.

I suspect a lot of hastily assembled applications aren’t of the same quality as ones that students took the time to work on in advance. Stanford asks for a lot of supplemental essays for a reason, so take time to write them.