<p>Can anybody help me out...Does it really matter if you have your application in by December 15th or can you have it done by January 1st?</p>
<p>same question here. is 12.15 the preferred deadline for the common app and supplement?</p>
<p>You can definitely have it done by January 1st- I know people who did and got in.No one knows whether it has any real effect except the admissions department, and my guess is that they refer to this preferred deadline just because it makes their jobs much easier if some applications come in earlier (which is absolutely fine- these people work very, very hard, and need to cram a lot of application review into a very short amount of time).</p>