<p>question for SCEA-ers. Harvard decisions come out 15 days before the January 1st regular deadline for most other colleges: will you wait until you are certain that you have been deferred/rejected to apply elsewhere, or will you start sending application materials to other places before you know?
should we have our teachers and counselors start sending our recs and transcripts (since they often need more time), and send the actual main form with the attached check only after decisions?
i am sending an art supplement to all my schools (if i have to apply to all of them), and it takes a while to have millions of slides made, not to mention the expense....
how is everybody else going about it?</p>
<p>I'm having the rec and transcripts sent, but I'm not sending in the actual application until I know because I would hate to spend so much on my app fees and find out I was already accepted</p>
<p>i guess i'll do the same. they don't refund your app fees once you send them, right?</p>
<p>You have to start applying now - you can't expect your counselor to fill out forms for you during winter break.</p>
<p>Besides, Stanford's deadline is Dec 15th. :(</p>
<p>You need to apply elsewhere now. If you end up getting in EA to Harvard, congrats to you for winning the "lottery." If you end up being like the majority of Harvard EA applicants who get deferred (and then rejected), it will be to your GREAT advantage to have gotten other applications in now.</p>
<p>Also keep in mind shainaloves' wise words about how counselors will not be available to do recommendatins over winter break. If you're deferred, you also will not be in a mood conducive to writing stellar applications.</p>
<p>in theory, i will be filling out all my other gazillion apps before i hear back from Harvard, but in actuality i am lazy and that might not get done. but yeah...</p>
<p>I'm applying to 5 schools RD, and I'll have all of them in before I even hear from Harvard. It's just better that way for me.</p>
<p>DS's school requires that everything be complete by the last day before Christmas break - in his case that is Fri Dec 16. They do not expect teachers and counselors to do this stuff during their break.</p>
<p>When I applied to Harvard through the Early Action option, I already had an acceptance from University of Michigan secured before I even heard back from Harvard (it was a deferral). I sent all my RD applications in November. I was pleasantly surprised when it did work out for me in the end though; but as Byerly pointed out in another thread, the deferral acceptance rate was 3% (94 out of approximately 3,120 deferred).</p>
<p>Well, yeah. I'm getting my recs done now and my applications filled out now and transcripts filled out now, but I'm not sending the actual applications until after Dec. 15. My transcripts and recs have already been sent out, but the actual application will got out after Dec. 15</p>
<p>I strongly suggest getting your applications done before December 15th. You don't have to mail them (although, if you aren't sure about Harvard, it might not be a bad idea), but I can tell you (from experience) that if you get in, the last thing on your mind is doing other apps. On the other hand, if you don't get in, you really don't want to be writing essays while dealing with the nasty deferral/rejection letter. Having everything done will ensure you have a much more relaxed winter break.</p>
<p>schools (like Harvard/Yale) don't throw out your recs and transcripts if you haven't sent in the app yet right? I don't want to waste money so I'm planning to send the actual app after Dec 15 but send in the rest beforehand. Is this ok?</p>
<p>they dont throw anything out. they use whatever gets sent to them first to set up your file and then everything just builds up as you send in other stuff</p>
<p>awesome. so send in most of the stuff now, and then the main part with the check once you are sure of harvard deferral/rejection. it's so much money.....argh.</p>