This, from last year's thread:
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Originally Posted by
Gara 
Chrisoc13 you got my point better than others but still only halfway. I was more referring to it making less sense from the perspective of the school not from that of applicants. I feel like waiting to review all applicants before making decisions gives them the best opportunity to pick the best among the batch. I know that it makes it easier for many applicants to know ahead of time I just don't see that translates to the schools getting the best possible students.
Of course you could make the argument that applying earlier shows motivation and maturity. In which case I'd clam up, being insecure about my own late applications, and mumble excuses about the timing of my MCAT...
I see what you are saying. Problem with waiting a long time to get the "best applicants" is you lose some by waiting so long. Many great schools do not wait until March and as a result you get some left overs. By then they have already been accepted.
Colorado is an example of that for a friend of mine. I am not saying he is the best applicant, but with 14 interviews and several acceptances it seems to me he is a very strong applicant, yet Colorado has taken so long to make a decision that he told me there is very little chance he will go there. O remember when he came back from the school he told me he loved but talking to him now their lack of effort to court him in any way or sense has made them drop much lower on his list. He's already begun making plans elsewhere and it would take one heck of a financial offer to reconsider Colorado.
I interviewed there as well but it wasn't a great option for me anyways hence using my friend who did as well as an example.
Who knows, maybe they won't want him ever. But I will chuckle if they try to accept him. Had they acted as quickly as other schools they would have had him. But they didn't.
That is the problem schools like Colorado don't get. They are an excellent school, but even excellent schools should strike while the iron is hot, because once it cools, the student very easily could have passed them by and next thing you know waiting for the best possible students turns into getting what is left over with a few hold outs.
Imagine if recruiting in sports was done that way. "we will wait till the last moment and then ask the best athletes to come to our school." Guess what, they already signed at an equally good school and got tired of your putsing around.
Anyways I'll still wait mostly because I like the options, but they also have dropped like a rock in my interest level due to their lack of attnetion in trying to get me.
, especially if that was the applicants only acceptance. 
