<p>Would anyone be so kind as to explain slowly and with very small words what the “modified rolling” admission plan is? Yes, I’ve checked the website, but I’m still not getting it.</p>
<p>Thanks much!</p>
<p>Which school?</p>
<p>Can you cut and paste the explanation from the college’s website? It’s hard to help in a vacuum.</p>
<p>I believe modified rolling is when a school is technically rolling - will accept applications throughout the admission cycle and review throughout, BUT they may offer an Early Action deadline date & encourage students who are STRONGLY interested in the school to apply by that date. I believe it was to help the student have the best chances of consideration for admission.
As with any rolling school, more spots are “available” earlier in the process than later, so if you apply in Feb. to a rolling school, they may not have much room to admit more students.</p>
<p>I’ll go and cut & paste it. I thought I just didn’t understand the concept, not realizing that it might be more school specific.</p>
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That’s what it says.</p>
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Here it is. This is what I don’t get. They list a response date as April 1, and I can’t get what mades that “rolling” because I thought that rolling meant a response came in with some connection to the time the application was sent, not that it would still be April 1. I’m sorry to be such a doofus but I can’t wrap my head around this.</p>
<p>My guess would be that April 1 might be the latest that everyone will get a response, but that’s just a guess.</p>
<p>(Normally rolling admissions school continue to accept applications, and to review and admit, until the class is full, which could be after April 1.)</p>
<p>Schools that offer rolling usually notify students fairly quickly after their application file is complete, and they continue to accept students until their class is full (ie students have accepted their admission offer, plus the extra overflow to allow for summer melt) Others are then wait-listed or denied. In those cases, the early bird catches the worm.</p>
<p>Some schools offer a “modified” rolling, in that it doesnt matter when you get your application in, they dont start notifying until, say, Oct 1, and then roll on from there.
Other schools definition of modified rolling is:
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<p>Sounds like Binghamton offers both the “early bird” approach.</p>
<p>I was wondering the same thing about U. Delaware. They have a “priority deadline” of 12/1, but they don’t send out decisions for non-Delaware students until mid-March. Univ. of MD has a similar priority deadline (11/1), but they notify on a rolling basis. So while it’s clear that you should get in the application as early as possible to UMD, I’m fuzzy on whether it matters for Delaware, as long as it’s before 12/1.</p>
<p>I take that to mean first-come, first-serve, but we close on April 1. ;)</p>
<p>Ohhhhh. Ok. Thank you all. Makes a lot of sense now.</p>
<p>hi guys: just to let you know, zoosermom, unless something has changed since last April, Binghamton has changed its admission policy to ALL RD…got that straight from alumni admissions counselor’s mouth (or email…hehe)…</p>
<p>let me know though…tx</p>
<p>Edit: here’s the chart from the Binghamton Website…you can apply anytime (obviously) but April 1 is still the decision date</p>
<pre><code>Application Type Suggested Application Deadline Decision Date
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<p>Freshmen Regular Admission January 15 April 1</p>
<p>Rodney, it’s actually new this year. No EA, but modified rolling. </p>
<p>So if April 1 is still the decision date, how does that become anything rolling?</p>
<p>very interesting question…do you want to call or do you want me to email my contact?</p>
<p>edit: just sent an email; I’ll let you know…</p>
<p>Bless your heart rodney. This isn’t a big thing in the scheme of things, but I hate to be confused.</p>
<p>I have to say – I took a look at the Bing web page, and it is utterly confusing, but the only conclusion that had any basis in the text was that by “modified rolling admissions” they mean “not rolling admissions at all other than for transfer applicants”. Given that they don’t address the question with any clarity at all (there are even references to Early Action, too, but no explanation of what that might be), the only way to resolve this would have to be to get in touch with them.</p>
<p>The treatment of this on the web page is stunningly incompetent, especially if they have just changed their policy. There must be a huge risk that lots of people out there think they know what the policy is and are wrong.</p>
<p>Just got a response that my contact is out of the office until Monday; I’ll PM u when I hear from him (but it may not be until Tuesday; Yom Kippur)…</p>
<p>On second thought, since I cross posted with JHS’s repsonse, I’ll post here for clarification…</p>
<p>Thanks rodney. Much appreciated.</p>
<p>JHS, thanks for saying that. I was embarrassed to even post, and my daughter has looked at it carefully and couldn’t get the answer.</p>
<p>As a side note, the GC (who is a new person), is telling kids to apply there after the December SAT. I may not understand their policy completely, but I don’t think that’s a good idea. D was happy with her scores and so applied already.</p>
<p>hi all…for those of you involved, hope you had an easy fast…</p>
<p>anyway, got my response from Binghamton…and NY residents are not going to like this…but I am only the messenger…</p>
<p>and I quote:</p>
<p>Mostly OOS students will be “trickled out” on a rolling basis; possibly some in-state but mostly OOS
Bulk of remainder of decisions will be between March 1st and April 1st</p>
<p>I don’t like it, but I’m not surprised. My daughter may have her decision made before that time and it’ll the Binghamton’s loss. Thanks so much Rodney. I really appreciate the effort on our behalf.</p>