Ambiguity over Yale EA

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>If you are a Single-Choice Early Action applicant to Yale, you may apply to another institution’s early admission program as follows:</p>

<p>You may apply to any college's non-binding rolling admission program.
You may apply to any public institution at any time provided that admission is non-binding.
You may apply to another college’s Early Decision II program, but only if the notification of admission occurs after January 1. If you are admitted through another college’s Early Decision II binding program, you must withdraw your application from Yale.
You may apply to any institution outside of the United States at any time.</p>

<p>Hey guys! The above is an excerpt from the Yale website on its SCEA programme. Frankly, I'm a bit confused by the first point. Since it says non-binding, does that mean that I can apply EA to other schools? And what does the 'rolling' part mean?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>No, because EA schools are not rolling. Rolling admissions means that applications are read as they are received, and they release decisions as they make them. In these cases, the earlier you apply, the earlier you will typically get your decision. UT-Austin, for example, has rolling admissions, and somebody who submits their decision in September or October will hear back earlier than somebody who submits it before the deadline in December.</p>

<p>Non-rolling schools have a single deadline, and applications aren’t read until the deadline (Jan 15). Those decisions are also typically released in ‘waves’ or all at once. In these cases, there is no stated benefit in applying before the deadline, as long as it gets in before the deadline (and you won’t get your decision any earlier).</p>

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<p>If you look through this list of Common Applications schools, it will identify each College’s admissions policy: <a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/MemberRequirements.aspx[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/MemberRequirements.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Yale, along with Harvard, Princeton and Stanford, have restrictive Single-Choice Early Programs (SCEA). The easiest way to think about it, is that if you apply early to anyone of them, you cannot apply early elsewhere. The only exceptions are that if you live in the US, you may apply to one of your state schools, or you may applying to a non-binding rolling admissions school.</p>

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<p>In another thread, you wrote: </p>

<p>“I’m an international student planning to apply to the ivy league, stanford, uchicago etc for economics. BTW my priority schools are Dartmouth and UChicago.”</p>

<p>So, based upon those thoughts, your choices for applying early would be:</p>

<ol>
<li>Apply early to Stanford. (You cannot apply early anywhere else.)</li>
<li>Apply early to Yale. (You cannot apply early anywhere else.)</li>
<li>Apply early to UChicago. (You CAN apply early to any other school that does not have a restrictive SCEA policy, including Dartmouth, which has Early Decision (ED) which is binding.) </li>
</ol>

<p>Before applying to colleges, it’s important to know the difference between Early Decision (ED) and Early Action (EA) and the difference between binding and non-binding. See: [Early</a> Decision & Early Action](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/guidance/applications/early]Early”>Early Decision and Early Action – Counselors | College Board)</p>