<p>I finished the actual common application, supplements, sat scores, and payments. All my teachers finished their evaluation on there. It's just my counselor hasn't submitted the school report, should I wait for it and then submit my common app or submit it now?</p>
<p>I have the problem right now also! I’m going to wait, so I can send it all at once.</p>
<p>anyone know what to do?</p>
<p>A lot of people do wait, in case they win awards or have other accomplishments during the fall that they want to add to their applications.</p>
<p>I don’t recommend waiting until just before the deadlines because stuff happens. Thunderstorms or a snowstorm could knock out the power at your house. Colleges’ servers sometimes get overwhelmed by the volume of traffic right before the deadline. Getting your application in 10-14 days before the deadline seems good to me. I think more than that may be overkill, though.</p>
<p>Yea, I was planning on sending in my application right now but I’m not too sure if I should because the “school report” from my counselor on common app says “started” instead of “submitted.” Should I still send it in?</p>
<p>You do not need to coordinate timing with anybody at your school.</p>
<p>When they get the first part of your application–Common App or SAT scores or what have you–they’ll open a file. When other things come in later, they’ll add them to your file.</p>
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<p>Make sure your application is perfect first, ask some adults to look over to get their feedback. When you are happy with it, I would send it in as soon as possible. Some schools have rolling admission. Even top tier schools encourage students to submit early. As mentioned by others, you do not need to submit everything at once.</p>
<p>Oldfort: not challenging; asking sincerely. What are some top tier schools that encourage applicants to submit early? And do they say there’s anything in it for the applicants (as opposed to the college) if they do?</p>
<p>I’m simply surprised because after my kid completed her applications a couple of weeks in advance, sometimes her stuff sat around until well after the application deadline before colleges even downloaded it from Common App.</p>
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<p>My kid was going to apply to Yale SCEA, and was told by Yale to send in her application as early as possible because they would have more time to evaluate the application. This could be just for EA/ED because of short window for the adcoms to read through all applications.</p>
<p>I don’t remember where I read it last year that also encouraged students to submit early for ED/EA and rolling.</p>
<p>Certainly, I agree about rolling admissions. I can’t think of a case in which it wouldn’t be smart to submit ASAP for rolling admissions. </p>
<p>And I can see why places such as Yale, that get a large volume of ED/EA apps, encourage applicants to submit early. But I do wonder a little bit whether they’re giving that advice mostly to benefit the applicants, or mostly to benefit the admissions office!</p>
<p>I think both. They want to give adequate time to all applicants. Logically it makes sense. Most applicants are qualified, if they already have a big stack of Yes and Maybes early on, then they maybe tougher on later applicants.</p>
<p>When I was teaching Algebra I to 8th- and 9th-graders, and urging them to show their work properly, I used to tell them that if they didn’t show their work for any other reason (and I did give them plenty), they should do it because it made me happy, and a happy teacher is usually a more generous grader. </p>
<p>I can see how there could be something akin to that for the benefit of an applicant, but I can’t imagine there is–or, at least, should be–any kind of official advantage.</p>