Looking at it from a work management standpoint the different deadlines allow the school the ability to spread the work over a longer period of time. Rather than having a single RD tranche of applications due 1/1 with an expected notification date of 4/1 and having to read all those applications in 3 months, it allows the school to spread them over a longer span of time. Auburn doesn’t do ED but they do multiple rounds of EA and then RD… and although I think many suspect the early rounds of EA get some amount of preferential treatment it’s exactly the ability to spread out the work that makes sense to the school.
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