<p>If you apply EA at schools and aren't accepted - how does it work in terms of regular admission? I mean, do you drop to the regular admission pool automatically? Are you able to submit a new application for regular decision? Or, alternatively, if you're denied in EA, are you once and for all denied?</p>
<p>I've been looking for answers to this on various college websites - but haven't found it! Any advice would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>You’ll need to check with the specific schools you are applying to because each school is free to make their own rules. In general, though, you would NOT submit a new application for RD. You would either be deferred (and automatically be held over to the RD pool) or you would be rejected outright. (In which case, you can’t reapply; they’ve already decided not to admit you.)</p>
<p>If you are deferred, you may be asked to submit additional information such as first-semester grades.</p>
<p>Thanks for your response worried_mom, however I have one more question if you don’t mind. If you’re rejected outright - is it usually because you’re WAY below the other applicants standards? I mean - if I’m in (or just below) the range for a school - they usually won’t reject me outright, would they?</p>
<p>There is no way to tell why they reject a student EA. You application is more than just your stats. You could be above the published statistical range and get rejected. There is not “usually” for why a student is rejected.</p>
<p>I understand that it varies by situation Chevda. But why would a college reject an Early Action applicant outright (thus not giving them the opportunity to be compared with the regular applicant pool) if they’re in the range? (Assuming that they have no blemishes on their record).</p>
<p>walt, i think its not predictable at all </p>
<p>i think there was someone on this website who got rejected outright EA to stanford but got into mit, and other HYP schools RD…</p>
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Because they didn’t like the essays. Because the student indicated a major that the school doesn’t have. Because they don’t think the student will be a good “fit” for the school. Because the kid’s ECs don’t fit with the college’s culture. Because they don’t feel that the kid will contribute to the school. Because the recommendations aren’t good. Because it was a full moon on an alternate Thursday. </p>
<p>There could be any number of reasons, which we don’t know. And it happens. College admissions are not a logical process. Try to figure out “why” and you’ll drive yourselves crazy.</p>
<p>walt- the college admissions process is in no way comprehensible.</p>
<p>That is from our side of course.
I know someone who got into Yale and Princeton, but got rejected from a school that could have been considered one of their safeties. Who knows why?</p>
<p>safety probably knew that he was too good to be seriously considering it as his main college. if he had shown more interest or made a phone call, he would’ve probably gotten in.</p>
<p>No, actually. She would have been thrilled to go there. I meant ‘safety’ as in it was a sure thing she’d get in, not as a fall back school.</p>
<p>OP: if an EA/ED applicant is rejected rather than deferred or admitted, one can logically assume that the student is fell into the “unrealistic” pile. Now what got them there is anyone’s guess.</p>