<p>I know that you should send your early decision app by nov. 1, but when is the ideal time to send your early decision application?</p>
<p>When do most people send their early decision app?
Will Oct 15-20 seem too late???</p>
<p>If the deadline is November 1, you should send it by November 1. Colleges aren’t working against you; they don’t have secret alternate deadlines which make you more likely to get in.</p>
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<p>Completely true. However, some colleges may have a “recommended time” to send your application by; check your college’s website to see if anything like this exists. While it’s not going to really make a difference whether you get it in by the recommended time or not, that would be the “ideal time” to submit.</p>
<p>I’m not sure, but having just read “The Gatekeepers” it seems, at least at that one school, the AOs wait for all of the applications to come in before they begin reading them. It wouldn’t seem beneficial to have your application arrive early…</p>
<p>Do all colleges read applications in the order they arrive? I was just wondering, could some of them just read applications randomly or in alphabetic order or something?</p>
<p>The only advantage that I see of submitting your app early is to have it read first, but if that particular college don’t read applications in the order they come in, then it won’t matter when you submit everything. Just a random thought.</p>
<p>You need to submit by the deadline date. Most won’t review anything until after that date and makes no difference who applied when. Yale (which is EA not ED), has mentioned it starts reviewing earlier as applications become complete (complete=all things are submittted including test scores, recommendation letters, etc.). In all cases it is wise to do it earlier rather than wait. Reason: those who wait until the last minute discover to their chagrin that there is something they need to get in by the deadline (a transcript, a counselor’s letter, other) that they failed to ask for and the high school says it takes two weeks to send something after a request is made and thus they blow the application deadline.</p>