Benefit of applying before Nov. 1 if not EA or ED?

Applying to College
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Hi there,
My mother and I have had a big argument on whether or not I should apply to Barnard before Nov 1. We know for a fact a peer of mine is submitting hers Early Descision, and my mom thinks that if they see two applications from the same school, it may lower the other applicant’s chances (??) will give me an advantage in Regular Decision. I am not convinced and personally don’t feel ready to submit my application in 4 days. I’m not even sure if I can submit my app if I’m not ED before Nov 1. Is there any merit to her argument?
Thanks!

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You can submit your non-ED app before November 1, but it will not do anything to impact your friend’s chances. She will be evaluated among the ED pool- you will be evaluated in the RD pool. Also, your app will not even be looked at until their ED stuff is done.

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Hold on. Your mother wants you to apply now so your classmate applying ED will be LESS likely to be accepted?? Am I reading tgat tight? Yikes, what a ghoul!

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In all likelihood your application will not be even looked at. First, they want the whole application (transcripts LOR’s etc which I doubt have been sent) and secondly, they will have enough to look at the ED apps — why would they start looking at RD apps.

You need to put together the best app you can and you shouldn’t rush to do so in 4 days if you are not ready and you don’t have a deadline to do so.

(And I agree with parsoc—what is up with your mom wanting to lower someone else’s chances?!)

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  1. there are no HS quotas for admits
  2. Your app won’t even be opened before ED is decided. By then, she may already be in or out
  3. Your mom’s concerns are ill-founded. If she is actually a shrew, then I feel bad for you.
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Okay… thanks haha. I think I didn’t phrase it right, she doesn’t want to undermine the other girl as much as I think she just doesn’t want there to be a cut off for applicants if someone is already admitted. I think she was under the impression that if they saw two from the same school they would consider “interest”… but this doesn’t make sense lol.
If there truly are no HS quotas then she shouldn’t be worried- I don’t think there will be many people applying anyway.

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There are plenty of people on this site that could tell you that multiple students from their HS got into the same college. In particular I can tell you my son got into Mudd ED2 and his classmate got in RD. My son obviously didn’t ruin his classmate’s chances.