Apply way earlier than deadline = helpful?

jags861
Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000

I do and don’t believe the whole rolling admissions thing. Just take a school like boston college which gets like 25,000 applications. They don’t wait until april first to start cracking into those. It takes well more than a month to get through 25,000 applications. You don’t really think they just throw every application they get into a bin until april 1, do you?

I always say if you can get it in early, get it in early. Because lets say school X has 3000 acceptances, and 10000 applications. Lets say they have 3000 acceptances by application 8000, the other 2000 are either S.O.L., or they are under much tougher standards (or get on the waitlist which generally leads to no where). So getting your application in early might put you closer to the top of the pile, so you don’t get stuck in an awkward spot.