Does it look bad if your kid submits his application on the due date?

[Anonymous]

My kid has an 11/15 application due date for EA and is checking and double-checking his application. I think it looks bad waiting until the last day to submit. What do you think?

[Anonymous]

I'm not an admissions officer, but I think the real danger is that life in unexpected. Your power or internet could go out; their website could go down. Shoot for 48 hours in advance.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think they notice the date submitted. But it is good to get confirmation that everything was received in time. The portal logins take a couple days to arrive.

[Anonymous]

50% of them come in on the due date if not more

[Anonymous]

Would it help if you offered to proof-read? Sometimes a second set of eyes can catch things.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think it matters but I wouldn’t wait till the last day in case of technical issues. I told my son to submit no less than 2 days before due date. He too was waiting and rechecking over and over. It was becoming maddening. It felt so good to submit, at least for mom.

[Anonymous]

DC submitted ALL of them on the due dates. No idea if it made a difference. You never know.

[Anonymous]

No, as others have said, it is just risky because things can happen (like the site could crash). Look at all of the people in Fla who just lost power...

Life will teach your kid that lesson eventually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid has an 11/15 application due date for EA and is checking and double-checking his application. I think it looks bad waiting until the last day to submit. What do you think?

I think you are making up drama by saying "it looks bad" for your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:50% of them come in on the due date if not more

This^. Not an issue.

[Anonymous]

No, but it’s a great life skill to learn not to leave things to the last minute. Give yourself at least a 24 hr window in case of internet snafu, power outage, suddenly realizing you missed something on the application, illness, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, but it’s a great life skill to learn not to leave things to the last minute. Give yourself at least a 24 hr window in case of internet snafu, power outage, suddenly realizing you missed something on the application, illness, etc.

^^^ all of this, plus credit card issues.

[Anonymous]

Doesn’t matter when you submit. My DC turned every one of her 14 applications including to top schools on the deadline and some were submitted right before midnight. Did not make a difference at all in acceptances. He still had many acceptances including to reaches and received merit aid at a few schools too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think they notice the date submitted. But it is good to get confirmation that everything was received in time. The portal logins take a couple days to arrive.

I know this is a pathetic world we live in, but the issue is not if the admissions officers notice or care; the issue is whether schools using machine learning and LTE (likelihood to enroll) algorithms include this in their data. I have no inside knowledge on this, specifically, but I would be surprised if the LTE numbers for later applicants and earlier applicants were the same. So, in other words, I assume the data enters into the algorithms and could therefore matter. Not saying in the overall scheme of things it necessarily matters much in most cases, mind you, or that it should trump spending more time to do a better job on your essays…