<p>I plan to submit a few applications about a week before their deadlines. Will this disadvantage me at all? Does the timing of turning stuff in matter?</p>
<p>I doubt it ; I have known many people who have submitted on the day of the deadline and have got into good colleges</p>
<p>i submitted my app for EA an 1 1/2 hrs before the deadline and i got in. but i highly suggest you not do this, i almost had a panic attack when the server crashed</p>
<p>does the timing of turning in the stuff affect the financial aid in any way??</p>
<p>I'm not talking about a last minute thing, I just want to know if it colleges will take into account that i turned in my app a week before the deadline rather than a month before.</p>
<p>what? No. You can turn it in anytime before the deadline. I didn't even think about turing in an app more than a week before it was due. Do people do this often?</p>
<p>Well, turning in your documents early helps with scholarship consideration. But it shoudn't affect admissions decisions.</p>
<p>My uncle applied to Stanford after the deadline and was accepted.
If they want you, you'll get in.</p>
<p>Does not matter much...</p>
<p>The benefit of applying early is that you can, depending on the college, find out before the notification date--especially true of LACs, for instance.</p>
<p>A general rule: For ROLLING ADMISSIONS it is more likely to make a difference, especially if the school is a reach. If the school isn't rolling admissions, theoretically it will not make a difference.</p>
<p>yeah, I know it's different for rolling admissions. I plan to turn in one of those applications about a month before the deadline, but it's not a reach anyway.</p>
<p>EA schools do notify early...many friends have recieved letters in mid-November. Even schools that have ED plans, sometimes send out decisions early (3-4 weeks after an application is done), even if they are not rolling admissions schools.</p>
<p>Now I'm all paranoid that my top match school is Rolling....Princeton didn't have it on their website's list of rolling admits, but I think their 361 Book said they admit people on a rolling basis. I tried to search the school's website, but I only pulled up hits for "Rolling basis" on their law and buisness and medical programs.</p>
<p>I was going to apply a week before the deadline, maybe I should make it 2 now....the school is George Washington.</p>