Stanford Admissions Deadlines for 2012-2013
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Following Stanford GSB’s recent release of its admissions essays for the 2012-2013 admissions season, Stanford has just released its application deadlines for the coming year. Not too many changes, although the school’s Round 1 deadline keeps creeping a bit earlier.
Here are Stanford’s admission deadlines for the coming year, followed by our comments in italics:
Stanford Graduate School of Business Application Deadlines
Round 1: October 3, 2012
Round 2: January 9, 2013
Round 3: April 3, 2013
The biggest change this year is to Stanford’s Round 1 deadline, which comes nine days earlier than it did last year. Along with HBS, which has moved its Round 1 deadline into late September, Stanford continues its creep toward earlier and earlier Round 1 deadlines year after year. While this can sometimes make Round 1 applicants anxious, the upside is that they will all be notified no later than December 12, which gives them plenty of time to gear up Round 2 applications if they don’t get an acceptance from Stanford.
The school’s Round 2 and Round 3 deadlines have barely changed. As we wrote a while back, Stanford has gone on record more than once to make a point of inviting applicants to apply in Round 3. While no one is saying that your chances are as good in Round 3 as they would be in Round 1 or 2, if you are reading this in early 2013 and are wondering if you absolutely must wait till the fall to apply to Stanford, know that the admissions committee will still review GREAT Round 3 applications with a very open mind.
