Minimum Date for SCEA Applications?

<p>For colleges that want you to send in your early applications by November 1st, is September 30 or october 1 too early if you feel that you've essentially perfected your app, triple-checked your essays, and couldn't make anything better? Particularly, would sending in your apps in advance demonstrate any extra interest in the school or make you seem more discplined/prepared? Thanks.</p>

<p>A bit too late to ask if you were planning to utilize some sort of plan for this.</p>

<p>But no, when you hand in your app has no correlation to your chances of getting in (unless you hand it in fairly late, of course).</p>

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<p>No, as long as they’re before the deadline, they’re all the same.</p>

<p>@born2dance, I’m not applying this year yet, that’s why. </p>

<p>I heard once that some schools read applications in the order that they receive them, is this true?</p>

<p>I know for a fact that Harvard tells SCEA applicants on its website, “Please return this form to us as soon as possible, and by October 15, if possible.” I assume this means that they do not seriously consider those who procrastinate.</p>

<p>“if possible” …'nuff said. Handing it in a few hours or even a day late in most cases doesn’t hurt you.</p>

<p>“interest in the school or make you seem more discplined/prepared?”</p>

<p>This is straw grasping. They read files when they are complete. Since a good portion of the file is not submitted by the student, why should “early” reads be given any advantage?</p>