<p>If a student is applying EA or ED to a college, can the student wait until mid-December to send scores and transcripts to the other colleges on the student's list, or will that not be enough time? Sending all the scores and transcripts is expensive and may not be necessary.</p>
<p>EA/ED usually has deadline in early November. It depends on the school if they want to receive everything by the deadline or they allow a couple weeks or so grace period for supporting material like transcript, scores, or recommendation letters. In most cases, mid-December would be too late to submit scores for EA/ED. You should check the adcom of each school for the requirement. Even if the school accept November test scores for EA/ED, you likely need to have the score report sent directly from the test agency before you have a chance to look at it first.</p>
<p>You would wait to send the documents and submit applications until after you hear back from your ED school or at the time of the normal deadline.</p>
<p>Thanks, billcsho and guineagirl96. Billcsho, I was asking about scores and transcripts for the other (non-EA/ED) colleges. I know the scores and transcript have to go out early to the early college, but it seems like a potential waste of money to send them out to colleges a student may not even end up applying to, if the student gets into the EA/ED school. On the other hand, if 2 weeks or so in December isn’t enough time to send out the scores and transcripts (if the student doesn’t get into the EA/ED school or is deferred), then maybe it makes sense to just fork out the money and send them now (but wait on submitting the actual applications–and fees–until mid-December).</p>
<p>While your application to RD schools is roughly Jan 1st, depending on the college, your scores and transcripts do not need to arrive on Jan 1. Wait until you have the decisions from the EA/ED schools to send info, if necessary, to any RD schools.</p>
<p>Thanks, skieurope–that will save a lot of money!</p>
<p>The whole idea of EA/ED is you may get an admission notification early that you don’t need to submit RD applications. However, my D did submit an RD application before hearing back from all EA schools since her high school required a 3 weeks advance notification for any recommendation or school report before application deadline.</p>
<p>Thanks, billcsho. I do wonder, though, whether colleges that receive scores and transcripts (and, of course, applications) in late December figure out that they’re not as high up on a student’s list (compared, say, to other schools a student applies to regular decision earlier in the fall because s/he knows that even if the early action school says yes, s/he will still be interested in a small group of other schools, usually to compare aid offers). </p>
<p>They know if you are not applying EA when it is available anyway. Even if you submit scores/transcripts early for RD, the adcom probably would not even look at it until they finish the EA round. Anyway, you are competing with other students applying to RD and most applicants would submit score/transcript around the time of application.</p>
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<p>That’s paranoia speaking. Colleges know that these items are out of the control of students. Thus an overworked secretary – who doesn’t send your Pomona transcript out until March sinks your chances? </p>
<p>You’ve got items to watch over. This ISN’T one of them. </p>
<p>Thanks, billcsho and T26E4–this makes sense and is a big relief!</p>