<p>Last year was the first year w/just one round, and the admissions office was practically begging us to get the personal information part of the application in online. They anticipated being absolutely buried if everyone waited.</p>
<p>Our daughter did the personal info on the online common app. in October, I think, and had her interview nice and early. She sent the essay and supplement in in December, by mail, after her teachers’ letters, one of which had gone in quite early.</p>
<p>Everything will work out. Harvard does not penalize anyone for sending that first personal info part in later, it’s just that they are trying to set up files ahead of time for some, so that they don’t get inundated, all at once, in late December.</p>