 Hello my people, my name is Meacham. Welcome to the Score Channel. We got big news. November 1st is right around the corner. November 1st is the early action deadline for a lot of universities in the United States, which makes it a huge day for international students and domestic students who are trying to apply to university. But for some people, it doesn't seem like a big deal. I mean, you can always apply later for regular admission. So why is November 1st such an important deadline? Should you really apply early? Yes! Put down the internet. Get at it. Stop watching this. Good. So if you're still here, I assume you're either watching this after November 1st or you want to know why it's so important for you to apply in November 1st. There are two main reasons why you should try to apply early as much as possible. The first is because you're more likely to get accepted and the second reason is because of money. Universities are much more likely to accept you if you apply early. It shows that you're interested in the university. It's a lot like going to a party. If you get invited to a party and they say you can be there at 10, if you show up right at 10, ready to go, it really tells the host that you want to be there. Sure, you can show up at midnight once the party's already started, but you're probably not going to get that same quality time with the people that invited you. You want the university to understand that you really want to be there and few things say that like applying early. But why are you more likely to get admitted if you apply early? Well, it helps to understand that admission officers have a very difficult job. They have to project the exact number of students that are going to be admitted every year. They know they have a certain amount of space. If they admit too many people, then there's not going to be enough room for everybody. If they admit too few, well, that's going to lead to empty seats and that's money they could have made. So they're always trying to get the exact number that they need. Ideally, for every student that gets admitted, you would have one student that enrolls, but that's not how the world works. However, what they do know is that early applicants tend to accept offers more frequently than regular admins. So because you're more likely to accept their offer, they're more likely to give you that offer in the early admission window. But that's not the only reason that your chances go up. Another big one is that it shows that you're a responsible person. If you are ready to go before the deadline and you have all of your paperwork, all of your essays, your letters of recommendation, your test scores, and all of your common app filled out, that says a lot about you. You're more likely to be a successful student in university when you can get all of that together in time. They notice that and they reward that by giving you better chances at getting admitted. And even more importantly, applying early gives them time to look at your application. Applications generally trickle in slowly, but then comes a deadline and you get hundreds, maybe even thousands of applicants on the exact same day. If you really think that you're special and you want the university to see you that way, don't you want them to have time to look at your application? Would you rather be the only one in the inbox or one of a thousand? So applying early shows interest. It shows that you're responsible and it gives the admissions officers more time to take a good look at your application. You're more likely to get admitted. But what about money? Private universities in the United States start the year with a big bag of money that they can give out to students in the form of financial aid. As applications come in, each of them gets an offer and that bag gets a little bit smaller with each applicant. They don't save a bunch of money for people who apply at the end of regular admission. They're giving that money out from the moment that the application is open. After that early action deadline passes, that bag gets a lot smaller. By the time you get to regular admission, you're basically scraping the bottom of the barrel to find some money for students. So if you want to have the best chance to get a big piece of that bag, you need to apply early. It can save you a lot of money. In our experience, we've seen people apply to the same universities early and regular with similar profiles. The difference can be astronomical. Applying early in October versus applying later in December or even January could be a difference of up to $80,000 over the four years of your studies. It's no joke. I mean, imagine I told you that you could make $10,000 a month or $20,000 a month. That's literally what you are leaving on the table if you don't apply early. Now, of course, applying early does mean you're going to have to put in more work in less time, but it pays off because once you've done your early applications, you get your responses sooner and you can start planning the rest of your experience. You can figure out where you're going to stay and maybe go visit the universities and check them out before you decide which one you want to enroll in. Applying early gives you that freedom to explore more options. If you're doing everything in the last minute, you're not going to have that time. To get ready for the application, you're going to need to have all your essays ready. And if you need some help with that, check out the videos that we've made on why this university essays or why did you choose this major essays? I did two live streams to help you get there on time. I'll see you next week after you've applied.