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Every cohort can have an optional enrollment deadline — the last day students are allowed to enroll. When the deadline is set, students can sign up at any time on that day; once it passes, the cohort stops accepting new enrollments.

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Time and timezone

Deadlines are date-only and are interpreted in the cohort location’s local timezone. A deadline of “May 1” means students have until 11:59 PM on May 1 in the timezone of the location where the cohort is being held.
  • A New York cohort with a May 1 deadline closes at midnight Eastern.
  • A Los Angeles cohort with a May 1 deadline closes at midnight Pacific — three hours later in real time.
  • If a cohort has no location-level timezone configured, the system defaults to Eastern Time.

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What gets gated after the deadline

Once the deadline has passed, the following are blocked with a “deadline has passed” message:
  • Paid enrollment (Stripe checkout)
  • Free enrollment ($0 programs)
  • Pre-approval application form submissions
  • Loading the application form page itself (students see an “applications closed” screen)

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What is not affected

Already-enrolled students keep full access to the cohort, course materials, schedule, and dashboard. Existing enrollments, payments, applications, and student-invite links continue to work after the deadline regardless. Only new sign-ups are blocked.

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Interaction with cohort lifecycle

The enrollment deadline is independent from the cohort’s lifecycle state (open, full, in_progress, completed, etc.). If a cohort is closed for any other reason — capacity reached, manually marked full, course already in progress — students see the lifecycle-based “cohort not open for enrollment” message instead of the deadline message. The deadline check only fires when the cohort is otherwise still open for enrollment.

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Setting and changing the deadline

Program admins set the deadline when creating or editing a cohort, in Basic Information. It can be changed at any time. Removing the deadline (leaving it empty) means students can enroll right up until the cohort starts (or fills up). Cohorts can also have an early-bird deadline, which controls discounted pricing windows. That is a different, more precise field (it includes a specific time, not just a date) and is documented separately under Coupons.

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