Apply way earlier than deadline = helpful?

jags861
Wed, 26 Jul 2006 04:00:48 +0000

i seem to have gotten my dates mixed up.

regardless

i didn’t say bc was rolling…i said (or at least i meant to say) that i don’t buy into the whole “if a school isn’t rolling then it doesn’t matter when you get your application in as long as its before the deadline.” the fact is, 90 days (or 75 - most schools i think are january 15th deadline) isn’t really enough time to go through 25,000 or so applications. Thats why I believe every school practices rolling admissions to some extent - but they just mail all notifications out at the same time (unless of course you’re being offered a scholarship or something). even if you use the 90 day figure - which figures that everyone is working weekends too…each application gets a little more than a minute of attention. Unless a student is completely underqualified i feel that adcoms spend more then a little more than a minute per application.

but the point is this. if you get your application in at the 11th hour…now you’re at like the bottem of the pile. What if by the time the adcom gets to your application they’re very close to being full - or actually are full. You would be held to much stronger standards than the rest of the people.