<p>^^^Referring to Post #4 above. Is 10/15 the date that closes apps for most schools?</p>
<p>If you haven’t applied by 10/15 you’d probably be better off waiting until next year. Applications open in June, the prevailing thought is any application submitted after June 30 is already late and the end of July is really pushing it. 10/15 is an arbitrary deadline date (you have to have one) that says admissions are closed but in truth, they’ve practically closed months before.</p>
<p>Many rolling admission schools have already started offering positions by late October/early November (if not sooner) and are well into the admission interview process in October as evidenced by some of the above posters.</p>
<p>Which comes back to why I posted “seriously?” above.</p>
<p>eadad,
I was curious about your thoughts on secondary app turn-around times. Does that really factor in and affect applicants if they are not returned for a few weeks?<br>
Thanks!</p>
<p>You’ll need to get help from others on that one. It wasn’t an issue in our case but from everything I’ve read/heard turning them around ASAP is best practice.</p>
<p>some schools care, most dont. you’re only hurting yourself by not turning them in earlier</p>
<p>I think my MS2 kid is planning on getting her Duke secondary finished. Someday. ;)</p>
<p>She followed the two week rule for everybody else.</p>
<p>Yeah curm, Duke was killer. I turned all the rest around in 2-3 weeks too. You’ll find that the first set’s the toughest because you actually have to come up with the content of your essays. Once you’ve done a few of them, you’ll find that you can reuse most of it anyway. The later ones are just a matter of continuing to polish earlier ones!</p>
<p>Thanks, eadad, et al. Funny, Curm. Appreciate your thoughts. :)</p>