<p>My friend is applying as a Transfer to 13 elite colleges in New England.</p>
<p>Mapping out the Decision Notification and Acceptance Deadlines for TRANSFER applicants, we notice that the times do not even come close to overlapping in several cases.</p>
<p>For example (these dates apply to TRANSFERS only):
College / Decision Notification / Accept Deadline
Bates / Mar 31 / May 1
Colby ............................/ May 15 / May 31
Williams ........................................................./ Late May / ?
Amherst ........................................................... / Jun 1 / Early June</p>
<p>Others (Bowdoin, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Vassar, Wesleyan, and Yale) map out in the middle or later ranges of the above periods.</p>
<p>You can see that the Bates Acceptance Deadline (your deposit is due) is May 1, which is a whole month BEFORE Amherst and Williams even send a DECISION. And the entire Colby decision period lies after Bates's deadline and before Amherst's and Williams's decision notification dates.</p>
<p>Is the timing so uncoordinated for freshman regular decision applicants?</p>
<p>Does anyone have any experience or informed knowledge about whether one can send his acceptance letters from early schools to the "late decision notification" schools in order to prompt a more in-line decision.... or.... will the early Acceptance Deadline schools allow an extension as applicants await decisions from other schools?</p>
<p>The timing for freshman is a May 1 national deadline.</p>
<p>If accepted, your friend can request an extension an explain his/her predicament.</p>
<p>Thanks. Anyone else have an opinion?</p>
<p>Requesting an earlier decision usually doesn't work and I wouldn't recommend it. I am in a similar position to your friend in that I was accepted to WashU already and will not find out from others until mid-May. However, at WashU you can put down a $200 non-binding, non-refundable deposit and hold your spot; I imagine other schools have something similar, though he should call to check.</p>
<p>thanks for the info. </p>
<p>it seems odd that colleges that are in direct competition would have decision time frames that do not line up more closely.</p>
<p>anyone else?</p>
<p>anyone have any experience with this?</p>
<p>I did see one school that explicitly says on its admissions site that if you have acceptance deadlines from other schools, please fax in your acceptance letters and they'd try to get you an earlier decision. I'd like to know if others would accommodate a similar situation.</p>
<p>I wish I could remember which school said to fax in admission letters from other schools in order to get an earlier decision....gotta go research it I guess.</p>
<p>Does anyone else have any experience with decision deadlines that do not overlap and how to respectfully and tactfully handle this with the schools?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I haven't found the school that said to fax in your admission letters from other schools yet. There are so many pages on every school's site.</p>
<p>A college admissions rep told me that the best bet was to state your situation to the school that has already admitted you to see if they will extend your deadline. He said that the schools that haven't decided yet may not be able to act any sooner and that it's random who you'll reach when you call.</p>
<p>What are you guys doing? Did someone ask them to rush your decision?
I'm applying to Brown (RUE) and though they would be sending the dicisions last week. I called them again today and was told to wait 10 to 15 days.
I have a deadline in other school (TUFTS) by may 1st as everybody else.
In Brown's site they say to fax them your decision from other school, someone did that?
I think it's not ethical to pay the deposit in one school and then go to another.
BTW, i'm undecided between those schools.</p>
<p>Any opinion?</p>