Most college applications — including the Common Application and the Coalition for College — opened on August 1, , for students who plan to start school in fall That said, students could have completed the general application components at any time before this date.
Colleges that maintain proprietary applications, such as Brigham Young University and Georgetown University , can vary in their open dates but generally become available by late August or early September.
While most schools require similar application components , different admission options allow you to submit your application by different deadlines. The four basic options are early action, early decision, regular decision, and rolling admission.
Regardless of when you apply, you'll need to submit a college essay or several depending on the school , recommendation letters , official high school transcripts, and, if required, standardized test scores.
The following table summarizes the most common college application deadlines for various application options, such as early action and regular decision. Many schools offer early action deadlines , which allow students to apply early and find out whether they were accepted ahead of the regular admission pool. While the most common early action deadlines are in early to mid-November, you should check with each of your prospective schools.
By applying early action, you can expect to receive an admission decision around December. Early action is a great option for students who want an early admission decision without having to commit to a school.
Unlike early decision, early action doesn't require you to commit to attending that particular school should you get admitted. It also doesn't require a response until the national May 1 deadline , giving students ample time to compare college offers. Another potential outcome of applying early action is deferment , or when your application is pushed to the regular decision applicant pool.
Although nobody wants to be deferred, this response provides students with the opportunity to reach out to the school and strengthen their application for regular decision admittance. Early decision resembles early action in that students apply to a college and hear back early, typically by mid-December. Unlike early action, however, early decision comes with a binding agreement to enroll.
In other words, once you're accepted, you must pay the nonrefundable deposit and withdraw all of your other college applications. This is why students applying early decision should be completely set on attending a particular school. One major caveat of early decision is that you're entering an agreement without seeing your financial aid offer. For those depending on financial aid to cover the majority of their tuition, this can pose a serious concern.
Some schools may help you explore additional aid options, but adjustments aren't guaranteed. As such, early decision may not be a viable option for every student. Most students apply to college under regular decision; these deadlines most commonly fall in January or February. Students often hear back from their prospective schools in March or April and are required to follow up with a response by May 1.
As one of the widest application windows, regular decision offers students ample time to gather materials, prepare their essays, and take tests. These deadlines can also give you additional time to carefully consider your college options. Then in late April, your school provides midterm grades for second semester courses or interim grades for full-year courses. The OUAC transfers your academic information to the universities as received.
Once the universities receive your academic data, they may issue early conditional offers of admission. Each university determines its own criteria for conditional offers.
Typically, universities make conditional offers of admission in March and late April after they receive your grades in February and April. Note that applications to Highly Competitive Programs must be received by this date in order to be considered. Applicants are encouraged to complete their applications well before the Equal Consideration Date, as website volumes on the online application are at their highest at this time.
Many programs continue to accept applicants after February 1. Use our Find a Program tool at any time to find programs that are still open. Applicants must confirm their acceptance of an offer of admission by this date. Log in to your ontariocolleges. Colleges may extend offers of admission after this date. Each college will set the deadline to confirm offers made after May 1, and this deadline will be communicated to you with your offer.
Of those, the institutions that went test-optional did not see an increase in their proportions of students who were low-income or from racial groups that are typically underrepresented on campus. There are so many barriers beyond test scores.
To that end, the College Board has introduced a number of initiatives to address the needs of low-income students, including free test help through a partnership with the online Khan Academy. This year, to some controversy, it also unveiled what it first called an environmental context dashboard , later revising it and renaming it Landscape. The score — which had been dubbed an adversity score — had been calculated using school and neighborhood information. Criticism of reducing such information to a single score, and concern about how that score would be used, caused the College Board to revise and rename the tool.
Related: As college enrollment falls, recruiters descend on a state that still has lots of applicants. Landscape will also evaluate neighborhood factors such as median family income; number of single-parent households; vacancy rates; and typical educational attainment.
These characteristics often affect the performance of even the most talented students, or make them less able to smoothly navigate the complex college admissions process.
The University of Chicago, which created a stir by making the SAT and ACT optional last year, reports a record enrollment this fall of first-generation, low-income and rural students and veterans. Schaeffer, of FairTest, said the dashboard is an effort by the College Board to reposition its product. Initial experiments showed that admissions officers were 25 percent more likely to enroll lower-income students if they had better data about the high school, however, said Michael Bastedo, a professor of education at the University of Michigan School of Education who has long researched this area and was a paid consultant to the College Board on the dashboard.
Besides, he said, simply going test-optional, without increasing financial aid to poorer students and supplying other support, may not make much difference.
The dashboard has been piloted over the past few years and the College Board said it hopes that as many as institutions will use it this fall. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. The Hechinger Report provides in-depth, fact-based, unbiased reporting on education that is free to all readers.
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