When should I start applying for colleges?

riverrunner
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:17:38 +0000

Anecdotal comment: One of my D’s friends was in a real hurry to get started on her applications. She started sending apps, teacher recs, and so on, in August following her junior year. This may have been a coincidence, but her files at schools were by far the ones most likely to have “missing” parts. We all speculated that the schools simply weren’t completely ready to receive her electronic or snail mail correspondences so early. She ended up resending things in October. Agree with drusba. Make sure the colleges/unis you are sending things to are ready to receive the material.