There is no single deadline season for CS, and nobody tells you that early enough. Some departments shut in early December. Others run rounds deep into spring. A few do rolling review until the class fills, which sounds kind until the seats are gone by February.
- A late CS application competes for whatever seats the organized people left behind. The deadline is a date. The pipeline fills before it. - Eight to twelve programs, some with two or three review rounds each. That is a systems problem now, not a spreadsheet problem. - Treat your earliest deadline as the deadline for everything. Get all files submittable by that date, then release on schedule. - Watch trap deadlines: some CS programs set an earlier date for funding consideration. Miss it and you get in with no assistantship.
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