<p>Due to various factors, including my good manners, I will be applying to MIT Regular Action. However, I will have the application completed as early as possible. What becomes of my application if I check off Regular Action yet turn it in in August/September? Should I wait? Does it matter? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Doesn’t MIT have Early Action though? Why not do it then? It’s not ED where you have to admit if you’re accepted, plus you’ll get the pressure off earlier</p>
<p>Other schools with early action would prefer if you didn’t apply to other private institutions that also have early action, and I have good manners, so I comply with those requests :)</p>
<p>Oh. In that case, wait until the EA/ED Application deadline and turn it in the day after that .</p>
<p>as long as mit isn’t selective ea, which i don’t think it is, you can apply to other schools</p>
<p>Ironchariot–I am not looking at it from the MIT direction, but the other direction. If you apply EA to Stanford, as an example, they would prefer you do not apply EA to other private institutions. I would just like to wrap it all up early and be done with it before my excessively rigorous senior year gets into full swing.</p>
<p>you can always have it done but hold off on submitting until november 2 if the deadline is november 1</p>
<p>Student1337 - Your application will be explicitly marked “Regular Action”. It doesn’t matter if it’s completed by Early Action. It will still only be considered when they start looking at the Regular Action pool.</p>
<p>So if you want to complete it early, and have reasons to not apply EA, by all means just turn it in early for RA.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t hold off. Why not just send it in and not check the EA box? Let MIT do with it what it will.</p>
<p>What a school prefers and what is allowed based on what type is EA are two separate things. If the EA is restrictive or single choice, you can not apply REA or SCEA to another school. But if you apply SCEA to a school like Stanford, you are absolutely free to apply to other private schools. And where you apply is no other school’s business as long as you’re not violating the spirit of EA or ED programs.</p>
<p>PsychoDad–</p>
<p>This is what it says at Stanford:
Restrictive Early Action Policy
Applicants agree not to apply to any other private college/university under an Early Action, Restrictive Early Action, Early Decision or Early Notification program.
Applicants may apply to other colleges and universities under their Regular Decision option.
Exceptions
The student may apply to any college/university with early deadlines for scholarships or special academic programs as long as the decision is non-binding.
The student may apply to any public college/university with a non-binding early application option.
The student may apply to any college/university with a non-binding rolling admission process.
The student may apply to any foreign college/university on any application schedule.</p>
<p>Seems pretty clear to me that applying EA to MIT would not be allowed. I have no reason to violate their policy. MIT states that it doesn’t matter in the decision process whether early or regular, and statistics bear that out. I was just curious what happens to the app if it got there early.</p>
<p>Piper’s absolutely right – if you’ve selected RD on your application, you’re totally fine to have the materials arrive whenever you want. </p>
<p>As a total aside, if it were me (and believe me, I’m a notorious non-procrastinator), I might consider holding the application back a few weeks, just in case I found something I wanted to change. Finishing early gives you the luxury of leaving the application untouched for a few weeks and coming back to it with fresh eyes, which can be incredibly useful. But you can send the application whenever you feel you’re done with it, and it won’t be a problem from MIT’s end.</p>
<p>Second, you are absolutely right that Stanford’s SCEA policy doesn’t allow you to apply EA to other private schools. You can apply to MIT EA together with Caltech, or UChicago, but not together with an SCEA or an ED school. I’m not sure why others are confused on this point.</p>
<p>^ Aren’t there Early Decision schools that allow you to apply to other Early Action schools, provided you withdraw those apps if you get in?</p>
<p>1) mollie and piper are right, and OP, we appreciate your manners and respect for other schools</p>
<p>2) piper - there are, yes (penn, iirc), but it’s often painful for the student, and actually it puts a bit more needless work on us (if the student gets ED elsewhere and has to withdraw)</p>
<p>Piper, you are correct. Schools with NON-BINDING early action (EA) like MIT, Caltech, Chicago allow you to apply to one other BINDING ED school (like Penn for example)…so, one can hypothetically apply to Penn ED (binding) and MIT EA (non-binding) at the same time…but, if that person gets into Penn and MIT…he/she will have to FORFEIT MIT acceptance and ATTEND Penn…</p>
<p>…I generally DO NOT recommend applying ED to any student who is planning to apply to SCEA/EA caliber schools (their real TOP choices)…because there is a better than a “good” chance that individual will get accepted to the ED school and will HAVE to attend…</p>
<p>…the student will be forced to drop all other applications for REGULAR DECISION round for their “real” dream schools like MIT…</p>
<p>…More importantly, for any student who has to compare financial packages and FIT in April before making the final decision should definitely be wary of ED schools…</p>
<p>I just want to clarify…as my son is interested in applying to both Stanford and MIT. So it would be better for him to apply during the Regular Action period for both schools? This is our first experience applying to schools that have this type of “rule”. </p>
<p>What is the true benefit to the EA period? Is the admittance rate greater for students who apply early? (I can’t imagine…but there must be a perk.)</p>
<p>@badgermom. If your son is a HIGHLY competitive applicant and has a clear #1 choice and would like to find out his decision by mid December…then he could either apply REA (Restricted EA)to Stanford or EA to MIT (but not both) in the early round by Nov.1…</p>
<p>…for both schools, there really isn’t a significant advantage applying either REA/EA vs regular decision other than finding out early about their “favorite” college…and if he gets in early…he is either DONE and relax the rest of his senior year…or, he can apply to other schools he may be interested in during the regular round…there is no right or wrong answer here…it’s up to him.</p>
<p>Hope this helps clarify any confusion…</p>
<p>I am applying early to Stanford vs. MIT simply because statistics say that EA’s at Stanford have a measurably better chance at admission than RA applicants. MIT applicants appear to have the same chance either way. Every little bit helps.</p>
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No, not necessarily – he could apply early to one school and regular to the other, according to his preference. Or he could apply regular to both. He just can’t apply early to both.</p>
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<p>@Student1337:
Can you substantiate that claim?</p>