MBA “News”: Check and Recheck MBA Application Deadline Times

You worked painstakingly hard on that application, but you never realized 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 for the schools you are targeting. Check them. Recheck them. And then recheck them 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 at schools with rolling admission), doing so could give you a little peace of mind and prevent you from being caught up in any troubling server traffic at the very last moment. Give yourself a day so that you do not even need to worry about checking and rechecking. Then on deadline day, you can rest easy.