Does applying earlier give you a boost?

NiceUnparticularMan
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:24:55 +0000

BKSquared:

unless the AO’s don’t read apps until after the deadline date

My understanding is that is often true at deadline colleges, that they wait until all the apps are in before they start doing serious consideration. Among other reasons, they want a sense of what the applicant pool looks like that year before making individual decisions, and there may be practical decisions like exactly who gets which applications that depend on volumes.

That said, that is based just on things I have picked up, so I don’t really know.