<p>So I read in another thread that a lot of ED decisions has already been made... </p>
<p>So the first question that jumped straight out is this: Does it matter when I submit my application?? I mean, wouldn't people who submit it like a month earlier might have a better chance of getting in?? </p>
<p>And if I submitted my application like the day before it was due, what are the chances that they've already reviewed it? lol</p>
<p>For a school like Cornell, they don’t have a “MAXIMUM” that they cannot exceed for early decision admissions. Maybe they would for Regular decision, but certainly not ED. For ED, if you’re qualified and they like you, you’ll get in; if you’re not, and they don’t, you won’t. Just because someone else submitted a month earlier doesn’t say anything about the person being a better applicant. So submitting it earlier or later won’t have an effect on your admissions chances. There’s a deadline, and they can’t penalize you for when you turned your application in, as long as it was before the deadline. It’s all the same.</p>
<p>There is a possibility they may have already reviewed your application, but what does it matter that they did? In the end, you don’t find out whether you got in or not until Mid-December–as far as you know, it doesn’t matter when they made your decision. You won’t know regardless till then.</p>
<p>Unless you’re trying to submit extra materials. In which case, I have to advise against that. Don’t give them more paperwork than they already have. It’ll probably do more harm than good.</p>
<p>“school like Cornell” do you mean all top schools are like that? </p>
<p>I thought schools try to fill 1/3 of their class through ED. though there’s no strict maximum, I thought it’d be around that range lol </p>
<p>Or maybe with the financial situation, they might try to fill more of their class through ED, but I duno</p>
<p>hahaha actually yeah now that I think about it my logic was kind of flawed; at least the way I presented it.
So here’s a situation: A guy sends in his materials in early October. Around late October, they decide he’s a good fit, but expecting more applicants in Nov., they probably put him in a pile designated “Likely” or something along those lines. There are people on college confidential saying “final decisions have been made,” but I doubt that’s really the case. I’m positive a school like Cornell with so many options would be a lot smarter than that(that’s what I meant by schools like Cornell hahaha) They probably made preliminary decisions, like a “Likely” system for the earlier applications. If they selected too many applicants out of earlier submissions and made those final, for-sure acceptances, they’d only be losing out on all the potentially better applicants who applied later on into the ED period.</p>
<p>But in the end, all this discussion is pretty moot, huh? We both submitted on the last couple days of the deadline-all we can really do now is wait.</p>
<p>Good luck. I think we all need it :P</p>
<p>Good luck to you too lol </p>
<p>Most people probably submitted it last minute too lol I imagine that the last week before the deadline experiences an exponential function of applications submitted.</p>
<p>are decisions released online?</p>
<p>On D-Day yes ^</p>
<p>For ED and RD, the admissions panel has a strict date before which they do not view or actively consider any application. This date is usually after the application deadline. Therefore, whether you send in your application in October, or on November 1st, the date of the deadline, nobody will view your application till after November 1st, making tiny details about the ‘date of submission’ meaningless. The applications dont have a “submitted on october 15th” or “submitted on october 20th” tag over them. Only the administrative department downloads all the applications and hands them over to the admissions committee who view all applications together after a fixed date.
Hope this answers your query.</p>
<p>Thank you. ^ Some folk were trying to say admissions decisions were already made a while ago. Which is just redonkulous.</p>