What Colleges Extending Application Due Date? (Lower apps?)

[Anonymous]

My kid had added Cornell, Northwestern and Dartmouth to the common app. Decided not to apply over break and then received emails offering fee waivers and extensions to finish the app the day after the deadline.

[Anonymous]

wow, most of these schools (Dartmouth, etc) did not do this last year. they must be hurting for applicants or at least the applicants they want (FGLI, obscure regions of the US, etc)

[Anonymous]

Is it possible that this year's extraordinary ED EA results reduced the number of potential high stats RD applicants on the table? A lot of high stats kids got in ED/EA, and are not applying to RD schools any more.

[Anonymous]

Northwestern extended ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale extended twice.

Not enough applicants this year?

JHU extended to 1/12. Ten days extension.

Northwestern usually has a LOT of international students.

So do most of the schools listed here.

I wonder if they didn't get the volume of overseas students applying that they usually bake into their formulas, so now they have to fill the gaps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale extended twice.

Not enough applicants this year?

JHU extended to 1/12. Ten days extension.

Northwestern usually has a LOT of international students.

So do most of the schools listed here.

I wonder if they didn't get the volume of overseas students applying that they usually bake into their formulas, so now they have to fill the gaps.

That could be part of it. And just the general state of economic uncertainty for many American families.

[Anonymous]

I asked the robots (ChatGPT) if there are more extensions this year. It said more colleges are extending deadlines.

“Overall, more colleges and universities appear to be extending or shifting traditional deadlines this year compared with last year, especially for decision-making and enrollment/commitment timelines rather than the raw application submission dates”

[Anonymous]

could also be some of these schools are test required now which is case with stanford, hopkins, harvard

[Anonymous]

Harvard in particular has seen decreasing applications since class of 2026: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/university-news/harvard-admissions-class-2029-admissions-data-ethnicity#:~:text=The%20class%20of%202029%20was,for%20the%20class%20of%202027.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale extended twice.

Not enough applicants this year?

JHU extended to 1/12. Ten days extension.

JHU likely didn’t have enough applicants or enough super high stats applicants - they’re test required this year and their numbers were inflated with TO.

[Anonymous]

Schools do this every year and it doesn’t change acceptance rates.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know if NYU is extending their deadline?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools do this every year and it doesn’t change acceptance rates.

More schools are doing it this year. Longer extension. They also want to keep the acceptance rates low as last years by doing so.

[Anonymous]

Well- my kid would have just procrastinated another week. Lol glad they were all in already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools do this every year and it doesn’t change acceptance rates.

More schools are doing it this year. Longer extension. They also want to keep the acceptance rates low as last years by doing so.

I think that the $90,000/year + schools are finally hitting that point where the cost is simply too high, with the exception of the very rich and the very poor.