Submitting Early

[Shiny Teeth]

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Hey guys I have a question about submitting early, so I have been thinking about this for the past couple of days, but how exactly does submitting early make you have a higher chance of acceptance? I know that adcoms are more lenient about giving interviews early on, but they know they have to interview people later on in the cycle. So do they make a decision on your application that week that they interview you, if thats the case then I understand why applying early would get you to have a higher chance of acceptance, I'm just not sure about it though.

 

[AppalachianDentalBoy]

Just like rolling admission for college.

 

[princeafrica]

I am pretty sure they make decisions at they go. They don't want until November to compare 300+ applicants

 

[pma96]

I've heard that in some schools the adcom gets together weekly to decide who to accept from that week's group. May be different for some schools, thought. I interviewed at Penn and Columbia mid November thinking that most if not all spots would likely be filled by that time and still got in. Maybe they have a set # of people that they accept each week to make sure those who interview later on have a chance

 

[aspiring-dentist101]

Hey guys I have a question about submitting early, so I have been thinking about this for the past couple of days, but how exactly does submitting early make you have a higher chance of acceptance? I know that adcoms are more lenient about giving interviews early on, but they know they have to interview people later on in the cycle. So do they make a decision on your application that week that they interview you, if thats the case then I understand why applying early would get you to have a higher chance of acceptance, I'm just not sure about it though.

Applying early will only benefit those that have high stats. I don't think it would matter much for those that have an average gpa and dat score. Most school do say apply early but they still start processing the applicants with higher gpa and dat first regardless. But obviously its not logical to apply late either.

 

[Bingwen]

My thought process on it comes down to numbers. 2500 applicants for 100 spots (4%) vs 1800 applicants for 30 (2%) after December 3rd. I just made up these numbers given that 700 either get in, accept elsewhere or get rejected, so I could very well be wrong.... Each school is a little different but after the first cut there a fewer spots and not very many people have been weeded out.

Also if a school has fewer spots left they will likely be a bit more selective especially if they have a stack of apps with mid to higher GPAs.

I think that if you are a poor candidate applying early gives you a better chance as schools have hundreds of interview slots and are likely to be a bit more generous in giving worse candidates a shot. This is probably more true with schools like MWU-AZ, Iowa and others that start offering interview slots early, and less so for schools that don't start offering until late August/ early September.

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[IdleKoala]

This is just a theory of mine, but I think it is beneficial to either apply early, or apply "late." I applied June 26th, and had most of my supplemental apps done early July, and thus received my first interviews starting in early August, and was accepted to the first school I interviewed at, granted it was my state school. For some reason I feel as if I have seen more people accepted who applied early on, or in like October/ November as opposed to August/ September . Now this is just my perspective, I could be very wrong, but I feel like it makes sense psychologically. If adcoms care more about stats early on as a previous poster mentioned, then perhaps once they fill up the class with enough "nerds" lol perhaps they become more lenient later on? But this could also be true in reverse. Once again just a theory, I would still recommend applying as early as possible.

 

[Cavity_Search]

Apply as early as you can. If you apply later there are less interview slots you are competing for with more applicants. Applying the first week the application cycle opens = you have a chance at getting an interview in all of the interview slots for the cycle. They periodically look at applications and review applications they have already looked at once.

 

[deleted678432]

My thought process on it comes down to numbers. 2500 applicants for 100 spots (4%) vs 1800 applicants for 30 (2%) after December 3rd. I just made up these numbers given that 700 either get in, accept elsewhere or get rejected, so I could very well be wrong.... Each school is a little different but after the first cut there a fewer spots and not very many people have been weeded out.

Also if a school has fewer spots left they will likely be a bit more selective especially if they have a stack of apps with mid to higher GPAs.

I think that if you are a poor candidate applying early gives you a better chance as schools have hundreds of interview slots and are likely to be a bit more generous in giving worse candidates a shot. This is probably more true with schools like MWU-AZ, Iowa and others that start offering interview slots early, and less so for schools that don't start offering until late August/ early September.

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Even more than 1800 after Dec 3 due to a ton of applications from pre-dec spilling over