<p>I surely hope so. It's driving me nuts. Almost all other ivies have their decisions posted much much more earlier than the 15th.</p>
<p>what are the earlier dates for the other ivies?</p>
<p>Columbia and Dartmouth--the 8th and some others.</p>
<p>I believe these are the dates for the other ivies</p>
<p>Brown - Dec. 12th
Columbia - Dec. 8th
Cornell - Dec. 15th
Dartmouth - Dec. 8th
Harvard - Dec. 14th
Penn - Dec 14th
Princeton - Dec 15th (mail)
Yale - Dec 15th</p>
<p>Harvard's the 15th (@9:00) and Princeton is BY the 15th (as in, if it doesn't arive in the mail by then, you can call and ask)
Wow-- the 8th is so soon. Those lucky Columbian's (?)</p>
<p>Yeah I was going to say that I know Harvard isn't any earlier...Penn supposedly sends out emails on the 14th at 8:00 PM, and Dartmouth is much earlier.</p>
<p>But who really cares...just wait. You'll hear eventually, no point in fretting out about it.</p>
<p>the only difference it might make i suppose is in other applications. In a time that is so deadline based as college application time is, 7 days is like a decade. My school wants all Jan. 1 application deadline material to be given to guidance by the 7th of December, and i cannot do this because i don't want to pay for my other applications until i hear from cornell. I think this is the only real concern in finding out a week early.</p>
<p>I know for a fact that if i'm deferred/rejected from cornell, it's going to be hell getting those other 8 apps in. again, 7 days is like a millenium in this time of our lives.</p>
<p>Amen. =/ Applications are among my largest concerns... I do almost everything by myself, but I'll need to at least submit transcript request forms/etc in the event that I'm not accepted.</p>
<p>If one were a dishonest person, couldn't they apply ED to multiple schools and then withdraw all their other applications after being accepted to one?</p>
<p>well the decision release date was released after the applications were due... so no you cant</p>
<p>"If one were a dishonest person, couldn't they apply ED to multiple schools and then withdraw all their other applications after being accepted to one?"</p>
<p>Your counselors shouldn't allow it. Also, the IVY League has an agreement so they check ( I believe). Also, if and when you are caught, your acceptence would be rescinded and then you'd find yourself in a very effed situation.</p>
<p>that's right. counselors shouldn't allow it. plus there's always the chance that admissions officers talk with each other. and yes, then you'd get rescinded. one kid send a shoe to a college after being deferred saying "now that i've got a shoe in the door i hope you will welcome me to study at your school" or something, but he did it to two colleges and the officers were friends and discussed the "funny story" that they both liked and were seriously considering accepting the kid based on academics plus his balls and creativity. but then they found out it was the same kid and he got rejected. not urban legend...i was told this by the admissions officer it happened to herself.</p>
<p>How would counselors have any idea if you applied ED or just RD? My counselor has sent out all of my transcripts and I have finished applications for 5 other schools in (all RD...but how would he know if I had gone ED to another school?).</p>
<p>Its like $3 a transcript for my school to send them, so I figured just get all 8 of of them sent out in October before the rush (my school has 4 guidance counselors, class is about 500 kids). </p>
<p>But yeah, I am hoping I get in so I don't have to write any more essays...Tufts has quite a few essays in addition to the common app one, and I'm in no rush to get rolling on them.</p>
<p>I believe you have to sign an agreement (which your counselor sees) which says you are applying to solely said school early decision, and you are bound (pretty much) to attend if accepted. So, depending on how attentive your counselor is, it would be pretty hard to send more than one ED (and rightly so). Having said that, I know it has been done successfully in the past- but I would definitly NOT suggest it. Who wants to risk his entire future on a pointless attempt to play the system?</p>
<p>pugachev: props for use of the subjunctive mood!!! :D</p>
<p>gambadent: well, the attempt isn't pointless...but it is stupid</p>
<p>live-: there is a special section on common app that is an "ED contract." Also, many schools have a duplicate contract in their supplements.</p>
<p>and then there's the whole concept of having personal integrity and not being a dirtbag, that might get in the way...</p>
<p>sparticus, but what I'm saying is that my counselor never saw my actual application...all he got was the School Report and counselor rec forms, which he sent completely seperately from my application (which I sent). I guess it works different at other schools? Not sure...</p>
<p>live- you're right. One could do that. I only had to give the school report form and a form with colleges decision types and deadline dates to my counselor. We were supposed to say which schools were ED EA and RD on our form.</p>
<p>so yeah you're right. but it's a big risk...your school might dally on sending your transcript and then one of the "extra ED colleges" would be like "let's call" and your school would be like "uuuuh, but he applied to JHU!" and then your "second ED school" would call jhu and you'd be dead. just one of the many easily possible situations that would arise even if you slipped it past your school that you were applying to ED at multiple colleges.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm not sure why I even brought this up, I would never risk that, lol. There's even a lot of communication outside of the Ivy League...maybe they do this just to scare people, but at the info. session for Engineering that I attended the former admissions director told a story of a kid applying ED to both Tufts and Cornell and got into both...but then somehow or another both schools figured out that he had done this so he got rejected from both of his first-choice schools in the end. And I'm sure the Ivies probably exchange lists of ED applicants or something to make sure no one does this.</p>