<p>As a type-A person who burned the midnight oil (which is now ten PM oil) many, many times, I’d beg to disagree that all, or even most type A folks are “do it ahead of time.”</p>
<p>D, who’s definitely not type A is a get-it-done-ahead – sometimes weeks before something is due. I can assert that never once did I manage that in college. Maybe she’d be a dandy guidance counselor.</p>
<p>Schools and colleges could do a much better job reassuring nervous parents – whose numbers are legion – that the deadlines are for the items the student controls – application, supplemental application, ED agreement, and ordering test scores. Absent that, why wouldn’t a parent think that the deadline was, in fact, the deadline for everything?</p>