<p>oops, I could have just posted the wrong date. It might have been the 10th last year. Sorry. But time is passing quickly. The letter mentioning Jan 21 just means that for procrastinators, that is the last date. But, actually, if they fill sooner with good applicants they reserve the right to stop accepting applications by then. </p>
<p>Last year we were in the not so stellar score situation, and my D took the Oct SAT. We had purposely NOT sent any scores to FSU, holding out for those scores to be better. Then, all prior scores turned up as listed on the transcripts :(. Initailly there was some anxiety. Then we learned that if there were NO SCORES REPORTED by the deadline, the app would not even be considered. So the lower scores reported by the school were a blessing in disguise!! They insured that her application was considered in the first group. And her SAT scores came in much improved by early Nov, and she got an acceptance. Had we waited to have all scores sent in with the final sitting, we would have had a problem… When they say they will consider scores after the application deadline, they do mean that some scores have to show as being received, and in our experience, they seemed to ignore the lower scores once they had higher scores in hand.</p>
<p>Just be sure that ANY scores are in hand by FSU by the 15th. No scores at all means they consider the application incomplete and will not consider it until Jan.</p>