Is end of HS junior year the new deadline for getting college application materials ready?

[ucbalumnus]

@2Devils

Same at our school and the other ones I know well(private): everything on the OP’s list is encouraged to be done by the end of junior year, OR a plan for over the summer before senior year. It is not new here–at least 3 yrs old, but I do not know further back.

How is it at high schools with average or below average resources, and probably a greater percentage of counseling work on things other than college preparation and application?