<p>Does anyone know if the Ivies do rolling admissions (applying earlier increases your chances).</p>
<p>If the answer is no, what are the benefits of applying to RD earlier or last minute? Do these colleges set a specific time to review apps so that there is no difference if you submitted your app in November or January?</p>
<p>What is rolling admission? I know that Cornell/Upenn does ED. Yale does EA.</p>
<p>Under rolling admissions policy, admission officers evaluate applications as they are received, instead of waiting until certain date.</p>
<p>^ What he said. Basically under rolling admissions, the earlier you send your app the higher chance you have of getting in.</p>
<p>Answer to OP’s question</p>
<p>None of the Ivies practice rolling admissions policy. Moreover, there is virtually no influence on your chance of getting in, whether you submit your application earlier or not, as long as you meet the postmarked deadline.</p>
<p>Thanks. Can anyone confirm this (need to be sure on this one).</p>
<p>Just want to add that by sending your app in earlier - you have more time to make sure they have everything. Most schools are now using on-line status check systems - where you can log in and verify that they have your app, the fee, the rec letters, the test scores, etc. Or, if they don’t use an on-line system - you can be old-fashioned and call or e-mail to make sure they have everything. The admissions offices are less busy earlier in the fall - they are opening the mail more quickly - checking things in, etc. It becomes a nut house by late December - then you have issues with holiday mail delays, etc. So, IMHO - getting your app is early is beneficial even if the school is not rolling.</p>
<p>To answer your question - no Ivy practices rolling admissions. It is widely used by large universities - think Indiana, Penn State, Wisconsin, etc.</p>
<p>Ah, thanks everyone, i rest easy.</p>
<p>And rockvillemom, I agree.</p>
<p>Some schools at Cornell actually do practice rolling admissions: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and the Hotel School.</p>
<p>^I can’t seem to find any information regarding rolling admissions on Cornell’s website.</p>
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<p>Don’t know if these schools actually do rolling admissions or not, but these are the Cornell schools that are technically NYS publicly supported. (NYS students pay in-state tuition at these schools; others pay OOS tuition.) And so their admissions procedure is more like a large state public than an ivy.</p>
<p>I wonder how you can have over 200 posts on CC and not know this?</p>
<p>Anyway @robin, Cornell does not do rolling admissions of course! The listed colleges have the same admission dates just as CAS and COE do!</p>
<p>@robinsuesanders</p>
<p>Hotel Administration is not a NYS contract college. The bottom line is that three of Cornell’s undergraduate do have a rollings admissions policy (most of these colleges’ applicants are informed on the common date, though). To understand why some of Cornell’s colleges are allowed to have rolling admissions under the Ivy League one has to look back at the reasons for implementing the policy in the first place. The common admit date policy was implemented largely to prevent one Ivy from having an unfair advantage of student applying to multiple Ivies by offering said student admissions at an earlier date than the other Ivies do. This was more likely to occur if the student applied to similar majors or the colleges in which the student applied to had similar majors. However, as ILR, Hotel, and a large part of CALS have majors/program completely unique to Cornell, practicing rolling admissions does not give these schools and college unfair advantage over other Ivies, at least in theory. After all, a student who is seriously interested and committed to ILR or Hotel Administration is not likely to be unfairly swayed by an early admittance from Cornell over the student’s application to the more liberal arts-focused colleges of the Ivy League.</p>