You worked painstakingly hard on that application, but it never occurred to you that it was…due at 12 p.m. EST! This year, Harvard Business School’s application is due at 12 p.m. EST on the dot and MIT Sloan’s is due at 12 p.m. PST and so on. Our point is, do not make any hasty assumptions about the timing of the specific deadlines you are targeting. Check. Recheck. And recheck again. And, hey, why not submit early? Although submitting a day or two early will make no difference as to when the school reviews your application (except for schools with rolling admission), it will save you peace of mind and could prevent you from being caught up in the servers being overwhelmed at the very last moment. Give yourself a day so that you do not even need to worry about checking and rechecking. On deadline day, you can rest easy.
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