<p>Quick question. Why would a school extend its deadline for transfer students 4 days before the deadline? I was thinking the only reason to do it in that situation would be dut to the lack of applicants. Why else would they do it so close to the deadline? Damn schools are always messing with students heads.</p>
<p>Or because the regular applicant pool wasn't as well-rounded as was desired. Who knows.</p>
<p>Can you give me an example of a school that extended its deadline?</p>
<p>Yale did. From 1st of March to the 10th, and this only days before the former date.</p>
<p>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo extended transfer application deadline to March 30th which is really late considering the first wave of transfer applicants from fall were being told of their admission decisions during Mid March-End of March. So you could actually re-apply if you got denied.</p>
<p>Edit* the extended deadline was for the summer session I should add.</p>
<p>University of Virginia also did the same thing.</p>
<p>UNC did it with its RD applicant pool and it's transfers</p>
<p>Rollins College just extended it from April 15 to May 1. Also, they had the largest # of undsrgrad apps in school history for freshman applicants. This leads me to doubt the applicant pool for that wasn't well rounded enough. It was just suprising to me, will likely hurt some people who had their apps in on time.</p>
<p>Do any of you suspect Yale extended the deadline due to a weak applicant pool ? It doesn't seem to make sense that a school accepting maybe 40 students, and receiving so many applications, would extend the deadline for this reason ?</p>
<p>Well, their regular applicant pool did shrink with up to 10%, perhaps due to accepting the so-called "terrorist" (which they weren't even the first to do - in fact, they saw his enrollment as a chance to off-set another man from a similar background already being snatched up by another Ivy) and getting a lot of public flak for it. Who knows. They might've extended the deadline as a way to not have their standard of admission suffer from reduced number of applicants.</p>