2020-2021 ED/EA Deadlines

College Search & Selection
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As we plan for the Early Action/Early Decision application process we want to compile a calendar of the upcoming deadlines. Here’s a few schools we know of so far:

Barnard: Early Decision is Nov. 1
Bates: Early Decision is Nov. 15
Boston College: Early Decision is Nov. 1
Bowdoin College: Early Decision is Nov. 15
California Institute of Technology: Early Action is Nov. 1
Carnegie Mellon: Early Decision is Nov. 15
Case Western: Early Action is Nov. 1
Colgate University: Early Decision is Nov. 15
Columbia University: Early Decision is Nov. 1
Cornell: Early Decision is Nov. 16
Dartmouth: Early Decision is Nov. 1
Davidson: Early Decision is Nov. 15
Duke: Early Decision is Nov. 16
Emory: Early Decision is Nov. 1
George Washington: Early Decision is Nov. 1
Georgetown: Early Action is Nov. 1
Harvard: Early Action is Nov. 1
Howard University: Early Action is Nov. 1
Johns Hopkins: Early Decision is Nov. 1
Lehigh: Early Decision is Nov. 1
U Maryland: Early Action is Nov. 1
U. Michigan: Early Action is Nov. 15
MIT: Early Action is Nov. 1
NYU: Early Decision is Nov. 1
Northeastern: Early Decision is Nov. 1
Northwestern: Early Decision is Nov. 1
Notre Dame: Early Action is Nov. 1
Penn State: Early Action is Nov. 15
Pomona: Early Decision is Nov. 1
Rice: Early Decision is Nov. 1
Stanford: Restrictive Early Action is Nov. 1
UNC: Early Action is Oct. 15
Vanderbilt: Early Decision is Nov. 1
Villanova: Early Decision is Nov. 1
College of William & Mary: Early Decision is Nov. 1
**Yale/b]: Restrictive Early Action is Nov. 1

Let us know as you hear from more schools and I’ll add them to the list. Thanks!

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Brown’s ED deadline remains November 1st at 11:59 pm (applicant’s time.)

Admissions: https://admission.brown.edu/first-year/early-decision

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Why keep a list here at CC? Most deadlines have not changed from what they usually are. Students should be using the college’s website for this information.

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We’d like to centralize all deadlines into one doc so any addition to the current list is appreciated. Thanks!

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Maybe note that if you’re sending an arts supplement to Stanford, the deadline is for application is October 15! This is something I recently found out, so maybe another student would also benefit from this clarification

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Interesting development: apparently Cornell pushed back its ED to Nov 16.

Duke also, ED Nov 16.

U Chicago EA/ED Nov 2

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Also interesting…multiple schools at Cornell went test blind. https://admissions.cornell.edu/standardized-testing-requirements

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Princeton is not having EA this year, just RD

All early decisions are binding. All early actions are not. Not sure why some ED are listed as binding and some are not, just makes it confusing IMHO

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Gotta agree with this @CCadmin_Sorin . also Harvard EA is restrictive and should be listed as such.

Also need to add Yale. Single Choice Early Action 11/1. And Notre Dame Restrictive Early Action 11/1

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Harvard, Princeton, Yale & Stanford all offer SCEA (Single Choice Early Action), although Princeton will not offer any early option this year.

I think of REA as a slightly different twist, and confess that I have lost track of the distinctions among Georgetown, Notre Dame, and whatever BC used to offer. I believe that student used to be able to apply to all three as REA apps, whereas that would not be the case with SCEA at HYPS.

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BC is no longer restrictive.

Harvard renamed it REA a couple of years back, but it’s semantics; nothing changed but the name.

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Northeastern also have EA. 11/1

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Georgia Tech:
EA I (In state): October 15
EA II (out of state): November 2 now

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@skieurope, I made the suggested updates. Thanks!

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Thank you! Nice listing of all the colleges in one place

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From what I understand, with Harvard’s early action, student may also apply early action to any public schools, but no other private ones.

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Also, I was looking into certain high value named merit scholarships, and I found out that the one at UNC has (had) a deadline of October 1st, AND you had to be recommended by your school, AND only certain schools were eligible/registered/vetted to be “referring” schools. Wow. They do take “referrals” from the early action pool, whose application deadline is October 15th, too. But it really seemed that you have to be well-connected to even know about these scholarships, let alone to be able to jump through all the hoops early enough to apply for them.

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Update: Got an email today that Tufts is delaying the ED I deadline to November 17th from November 1st.

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I got an email yesterday from Villanova saying that their ED/EA deadline has been extended to November 15

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It is very nice to have in one place! Would it not be better to differentiate between EA vs REA/SCEA?

My understanding is that you can apply EA to as many as you want but not so with REA/SCEA. If I am correct then it would be much more informative I think.