Southern Methodist University Early Action / Early Decision for Fall 2025 Admission

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yeah the sub 40%is fascinating. we submitted a 32 shrug

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The anxiety got to us last night so my daughter emailed her counselor to ensure to confirm she is test optional so that the lack of received scores would not hold up her decision. My guess is that the decision has already been made, but figured it would not hurt and maybe would lessen the anxiety lol.

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I’d rather be patient for a real decision than get yet another deferral into RD like some of these other schools are doing (which I can’t stand!). Sort of defeats the entire purpose of early action.

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Hopefully that won’t happen! I agree deferrals are awful.

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Agreed, it’s borderline unethical to defer a large section of applicants when you promise an early action.
At least they should be transparent that apply EA only if you have a hook or you’re super high stats (and won’t join us anyways) or super low stats (so we can reject you).

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Yes! And the anxiety and self-doubt that result from EA deferrals, especially in those kids who have strong stats and will likely get in during RD, is devastating. Thankfully, we were able to look at some past year’s data and knew ahead of time that a deferral was likely (i.e., UGA) but it still caused unnecessary disappointment. I get that schools want the top of the top, but there’s something to be said for kids who have their act together and apply early action. I know I’m preaching to the choir. sigh I feel different about SMU and it really seems that they value their EA applicants. Hope they stay true to that model!

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Agreed 100%. I can write a thousand word essay disparaging how AOs take deserving kids for a ride
 the one’s who’re most likely to accept their offers
 but I’ll spare everyone getting more frustrated than they already are

btw, I’m just waiting for someone on this thread to scream
 DECISIONS ARE OUT
 lol

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Completely agree with all the comments!

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I will co-author
after our kids submit their deposits of course. :rofl:

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My sons portal just lost the ability to update or send test scores.

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Mine too

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Same. I recall reading this on last year’s thread but don’t recall the timing of it all. I need to go back and check.

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Ok looked at last year’s thread. It’s hard to decipher without time stamps but it looks to possibly be the same day. Yikes!

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You can click on the date and it will show the timestamp in your own timezone.

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Well thank you for teaching me something new. So last year, there were first reports of the buttons being removed on December 18th around 10am. Then emails were received to check their portal a couple of hours later. Decisions were in the portal at 7pm.

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Woohoo
 so decisions are imminent today
 thank you so much for checking
 I was too lazy to do this tedious work
 lol

Wishing everyone the very best for decisions today
 may all our great kids get acceptance :pray:

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Best of luck to all our kids (and hopefully today!)!

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My daughter’s portal still has the ACT/SAT score option active. Hopefully that’s not an early sign of a deferral!!

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I’ll give some benefit of doubt to the batch updates.
Please stay hopeful.
This portal astrology has major downsides.

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My son’s portal still has the ACT/SAT score option active. Did your daughter apply to Cox? My son did.