<p>Colleges want to know as much about the child as they can.</p>
<p>Is a student submitting his/her application one week prior to the deadline more matured/organized than a student submitting one day before the deadline?</p>
<p>Will submitting a week before the deadline give me higher chances?</p>
<p>Do colleges care whether you are that last minute worker or do they just sift through the applications without bothering?</p>
<p>In general, no, it makes no difference, especially if we’re talking about the elite schools. It CAN make a difference for many rolling admission schools in that earlier applications may get better housing slots and/or available scholarship money, but most schools that use rolling admission rarely run out of spaces to admit people. Priority to earlier applicants for scholarship money takes place at some RD schools as well, but a week rarely makes that much of a difference, unless your application happens to be the one that came in just after they ran out.</p>
<p>I know of no school that makes any judgement about admissions based on when a student submitted their application in a particular round. I’m not even sure readers and admissions committees have that information available. Not saying that’s true absolutely everywhere, but I haven’t heard of it happening.</p>
<p>Phew.
That was a relief 
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<p>Thanks @MrMom62 </p>