I was looking at Stanford, Harvard, and other top schools. They all use common application and state the deadline they have for admissions but I can not find the earliest you can start on the application and submit it.
The Common App opens August 1. If the school has supplemental requirements, sometimes those open a little later (Sept at the latest). But you gain nothing by sending it in the first weeks it is open for top schools. They don’t even look til all the components are in hand (recs, transcripts, test scores, etc). And they don’t do rolling admission, so your odds aren’t higher.
Thank you for your response.