The Early Action deadline is almost here

Hi all,

Happy Halloween!

Tomorrow night is the deadline for Early Action. Here are some things we want you to know:

1. Early Action applications should be submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having trouble submitting their Parts 1 and 2.)
2. Your school/teachers may submit their materials after the deadline. We are much more flexible and understanding with teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in our office by November 1. They can arrive and be processed well after this date and you will still be fine.
3. Please allow five days for the processing of all submitted materials. Materials still need processing time. Items are not posted directly to the MyMIT account from Naviance or ApplyWithUs site. We need five business days for processing.
4. If you need to switch from EA to RA, write to admissions@mit.edu from the email address on your MyMIT account. Don’t forget to provide your name and MIT ID, stating clearly that you wish to change from EA to RA.
5. Financial Aid is a different office, fax number, and email. We realize their fax machine is busy today - please try over the weekend or next week. Late receipt of financial aid materials will not have any affect at all on your QB or EA application.
6. We do not accept email docs - items must be faxed, mailed, or submitted through naviance or ApplyWithUS.
7. We will wait for October and November test results. Please do not rush reports.

Most of all, try not to get too stressed out! Go out with your friends. Give out candy to cute trick-or-treaters at your front door. Watch a scary movie.

We won’t be answering the phone over the weekend, but a few of us will check this blog post and we’ll try to help answer questions if we haven’t answered them already. Please hold off on asking RA questions right now, there’s plenty of time for that still.