I’ve applied to two schools as a transfer student. RD. One with a deadline of Feb. 1, the other with a deadline of March 1.
I’ve been working on my apps since November–essays (and my CV) have been through multiple rounds of feedback, revisions, and all-- and I feel pretty good about them! Already had my interviews too. So, I went ahead and submitted my applications.
I’m a little worried now, hopefully overthinking how the admissions office will feel about the fact I applied in Jan for their March deadline? I did interview at this school back in November, however, lol. (I guess I’m having anxiety that something will change up on the Common App before then, questions or something! But this must be my catastrophic thinking).
I wanted to spend my time perfecting my applications over winter break, before the spring semester starts. I’m sure they’ll assume that? Basically, help me to stop overthinking! Has anyone else done this? Applied early to a RD with a favorable outcome?
Sending an app somewhat early is not an issue except you need to assure that you have everything that needs to be submitted – for example if the your college requires the first semester grades for a transfer applicant and you do not have them when you apply, you still need to send them when you get them.
I am pretty sure that this will make no difference at all. If it does make any difference, then applying early will make it look as if you are organized, and you have a sincere desire to attend their school. Both of these are of course positive.
As @drusba said, make sure that you have submitted everything including first semester grades. Presumably you will have gotten your grades a while ago. With this, relax and concentrate on your current classes. It is likely to be a while before you hear back.
“I wanted to spend my time perfecting my applications over winter break, before the spring semester starts.”
This is very sensible thinking. Good luck and I hope that you get into both schools and have to make a decision.
this isn’t middle school dating where they are going to think that you must be lame to be so desperate that you would - ewww- apply early
Admissions is unlikely to pay any attention at all to when you applied- as long as you are in before the deadline. They have actual work to do, and the apps will go in a (virtual or actual) pile until they are ready to deal with them (whether that’s on a rolling or all-at-once basis).
Go do something useful with all that nervous energy! do something helpful for somebody who has actual challenges. Or something physical. Make some actual food and invite somebody to share it with you.
Your early application could actually be a benefit, as some schools (at least for frosh admissions) have found that the the number of days applied prior to the actual deadline (yes, some do track this) is highly correlated with likelihood of ultimate enrollment if offered admission. Good luck!
ummm…@Mwfan1921, if the correlation is with the student choosing to enroll in that school, the likelihood of the student being offered admission is not affected. Useful info for a school trying to improve its yield ratio, to improve their USNWR ranking, but impacts on admission offers only if the school then makes a policy of giving a bump for early applicants. As yield only counts for frosh, there is even less reason to think that it might affect transfer admission decisions.
But, nice to be encouraging of an anxious applicant
Yes, I don’t know what institution we are talking about, nor if the model applies to transfers.
But make no mistake, when a school uses a model that put every applicant into a decile based on their likelihood to enroll (BTW yield/acceptance rate is not part of USNWR rankings) that decile/measure does impact whether the applicant is admitted at some schools. Lots of variance across schools as to what variables are measured, and admissions process is very dynamic (so lots of change within a given school over time as well).
