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For the RD student, “application time” is a period of 3-4 months, with the freedom to add more colleges late in the game. At the very end of the process… my daughter went online and submitted an application to Fordham. It was essentially an afterthought – she decided she needed another safety, she wanted to come to NY, so though unvisited and previously unconsidered, she spent 15 minutes online and added to her choices. Fordham accepted her of course… and surprised us with a financial aid package containing more merit money that I would have thought likely … but by the time she arrived in NY on the visit-Fordham trip in the spring, she had been admitted to Barnard, and so never made it to Fordham.</p>
<p>But the point is… there isn’t a fixed decision point the RD process. There are deadlines… but even those might be flexible. (We kept getting emails from Tulane about their deadline being extended – it was the same year as Katrina, so Tulane was in a tough spot at the time).</p>