<p>Can one apply to two colleges? If that person is rejected from one college, then can he or she still have a chance to be accepted into the other college?</p>
<p>Yes. It’s called primary/alternate admission. You’ll have to specify which of the two colleges is your primary choice. If you’re accepted by that college, you won’t be eligible for admission to your alternate college. But then, that is why it’s your primary. If you’re rejected, your alternate college will review you application. You’ll have to write supplementary essays for both your colleges.</p>
<p>chances for your primary choice are much higher though</p>
<p>Thanks all</p>
<p>I read somewhere that admissions were so competitive and so numerous this year that all colleges disregarded your secondary application. If you were rejected from your first choice college your secondary school didn’t even review your application. Every school had so many qualified applicants that it would make no sense to accept a student into his second choice college, when that same college was first choice for hundreds/thousands of rejcted applicants who were qualified but simply didn’t make the final cut. (I am working vigorously to find the source, but I think it may have come from an admissions announcement or something similar which gets erased after a period of time).</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be suprised at all if they remove the secondary college application alltogether either this year or next. The secondary application just means more work for overstressed applicants, as well as extra work for the admission commities , work which, if college application trends continue, end up being a complete waste of time come application reviewing time.</p>
<p>Even if the option sticks around and a few lucky students manage to work there way into their alternate school, my advice is to simply focus on one application, and use the time you would have used for the other to strengthen your primary application. In my opinion, doing this will increase your chances of being accepted more than applying to two schools does.</p>