<p>Well, it's December on us - and Christmas music is a nagging reminder that the January 1st deadline is approaching fast.</p>
<p>I submitted my application last night to meet the Dec. 15th date for Princeton and Harvard, and I had a quick question: How badly are my admission chances affected by applying mid December? Yes, I know I should have kicked it into gear before hand, and I have a thousand excuses I could give. Anyways, are a majority of applicants selected for admission BEFORE the December month? </p>
<p>Thanks! </p>
<p>Oh, and just for giggles, here's my little breakdown.</p>
<p>ACT - 33
SAT II's - Language(770), Biology(690), Math II(660)
AP Classes - Language (5), Calc BC (4 with 5 subscore), Biology (3), and Chem, Literature, Stats, Physics, and Psychology are pending scores in May.
GPA - 3.85 Unweighted. Yes, I've taken every single course that is advanced or AP (and tested out or ind. studied several). </p>
<p>EC's</p>
<p>Holly Hotel (4 star restaurant) - 30 hours a week of work.
Holly Candle Shoppe (family owned, started in May) - 10 hours a week of work.
Five Dual Enroll Classes over the past year.
Self Owned Lawn Care Service.
Treasurer of the NHS at my school.
Robotics Club VEX Captain. </p>
<p>I'm sure that paints a decent picture of my grades and such. Once again, I give you my beforehand appreciation for responses!</p>
<p>They’re not affected badly. As long as you’re a viable candidate, you’re not going to rejected based on when you submitted your application. I submitted my application to Yale the day it was due and got in.</p>
<p>You shouldn’t even be worried about this anyway, since you made the priority deadline–that’s two weeks early. Plenty of people (myself included) will still be sending theirs in in the days to come.</p>
<p>It might have some small effect, but I don’t think it’s completely negligible. They have to be making decisions in some sort of order, and my guess is that they might be a little easier early on and then make admissions tougher as the number of spots left dwindles.</p>
<p>^In other words, it’s irrelevant from the perspective of the applicant because the last post is speculation. By no means am I saying it’s not true – it’s just not something that we can know. For all we can imagine, the opposite is true.</p>
<p>Officially, the priority deadline has no effect on admissions. Plus, this guy was freaking out because he <em>only</em> made the priority deadline.</p>
<p>In addition, the argument you made could easily apply to RD as well. </p>
<p>I’m saying that officially and in my personal opinion given that information, the priority deadline has no effect. However, I’m not completely ruling out the possibility that the order in which applications are received has no effect (note this is completely separate from the priority deadline).</p>
<p>Yes. The priority deadline is a construct; the OP was wondering about the priority deadline in particular. The order in which applications are received exists outside of the priority deadline.</p>