hogwarts wrote:
cheetarah1980 wrote:
I'm in for August 2012. I know the advice with CBS is to apply early. However, I've also heard that getting your app submitted by August/September doesn't matter if you're not applying ED. In fact I read that they won't look at the app anyways until December and it might even look bad to apply so early without going ED. Any concensus?
Count me in for Regular Decision for Fall 2012. I'll probably submit my application in Oct or Nov of 2011.
I went to an info session on campus and if I heard correctly, they said that for Regular Decision they don't start looking at the applications until December. So I'm sure you could submit by the ED deadline but I wouldn't expect to hear much from them until after the ED folks are mostly taken care of.
The thing is, though, that once they start reviewing RD applicants, you're gonna come first because you applied in October (vs. a guy that applied in December).
I don't know this for a fact, but this is what I've always understood of "rolling admissions". It doesn't mean they answer you straight away, but it does mean that, statistically, they'll answer you before someone who applied one month later.