<p>Has anyone run into problems by applying to both Princeton and Harvard in the SCEA round? My thinking is that there's no way they could really catch you and if you're going to have a shot, it would be in the SCEA round. Any advice on applying to both schools SCEA would be appreciated!</p>
<p>Those schools do compare their lists. If caught, they most likely would rescind you your acceptance.</p>
<p>Your high school GC also wouldn’t send out your LORs and transcript to two SCEA schools because the high school could be blacklisted.</p>
<p>Ah, okay. Is it alright to apply to Chicago and Princeton?</p>
<p>I doubt you could apply SCEA to 2 schools, ANY 2 schools. The risk is too great, if you get caught they’ll revoke your admission… Play it fair.</p>
<p>Again, your GC is not going to send the required LORs and transcripts to two SCEA schools. When a GC sends a LOR to a school it is just that…a Letter of Recommendation. If they knowingly are doing this while the student is breaking the rules of that schools admissions policies the GC loses credibility at that university and will have difficulty being an advocate for students in the future. It makes no difference what two SCEA schools it is.</p>
<p>I believe so, since one is SCEA and another EA. Read the fine print.</p>
<p>Wait but i thought that chicago was non-restrictive and that it would be okay to apply to alongside princeton?</p>
<p>Chicago is non binding so you’re allowed to apply to other colleges. Princeton says you cannot apply to other Early programs. If you apply SCEA Princeton, your GC will be violating ethics rules by assisting you in applying to Chicago.</p>
<p>Please follow the rules. You want an advantage of knowing early? Don’t screw them at the same time.</p>
<p>This is from Princeton’s website, <a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/single-choice-early-actio/:[/url]”>http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/single-choice-early-actio/:</a>
You may not apply to UChicago EA, but you may apply to UVA, UNC UMich EA. Again, read each school’s fine print.</p>
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<p>And this is exactly why your plan won’t work. Because even though you don’t have to deal with Princeton Admissions and Chicago Admissions after this year, your school does. And for the sake of applicants in future classes, the school doesn’t want to get blackballed at either university–which would happen.</p>
<p>Sorry, but what confuses you about SINGLE choice early action? Why else would it be called SINGLE choice if Harvard and Princeton didnt want you to apply early action to other schools (private at least)? </p>
<p>And yes, if you are caught you will be screwing yourself not just with those 2 schools, but possibly any other schools you apply to (other ivy league for example) as well as your school and those who apply in the future. </p>
<p>-><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/1047451-blacklisted.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/1047451-blacklisted.html</a></p>
<p>Yeah, sorry guys. I had heard different things from other kids who had gotten away with schools and just wanted to get other opinions.</p>
<p>That’s fine, great to ask questions like this to avoid mishaps.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s what I figured. Any advice on CC for reading essays? Any of you guys willing to read my essays for a critique?</p>
<p>No, I wouldn’t advise letting other students read your essays. Cortana431 is a freshman in college and a long time poster. It would be safe with someone like him, but no high school students. There is no guarantee someone wouldn’t use your essay. I think it’s probably a good idea not to have your peers in real life read your essays either.</p>
<p>My friend and I both applied to Harvard SCEA but he submitted EA applications to other schools as well? I thought we weren’t allowed to do that? I’m thinking I should email Harvard and turn him in because thats dishonest and unfair (especially to me)</p>
<p>“My friend…” I’d hate to see your enemies list.</p>
<p>Kathie,
Read this thread again carefully. Note there are exceptions such as EA publics sometimes. I don’t know Harvard’s specific rules. You’ll have to read their fine print. Also note that several posters pointed out that trying to get around SCEA restrictions would be very difficult once supporting documents are requested of the GC. They are not going to knowingly assist a student in doing this and risk their reputation with those schools. Many ED/SCEA schools do share lists of accepted students. </p>
<p>I honestly do understand your frustration but I would advise against calling Harvard to tattle. You may be correct, but it doesn’t necessarily shine a positive light on you in the process. If you really can’t let it go, after reading the fine print and are fairly certain this is not a school that’s okay to apply early as well, at most I would speak to your GC about your concern/frustration and let them speak to the other students GC (assuming its not the same one) on a professional level. What happens from there, if anything, is none of your business.</p>
<p>Interesting. </p>
<p>HYP all now allow EA applications to public institutions. </p>
<p>Back in 2009, I remember asking for clarification at a Yale info session, and they specifically said that applying to Yale SCEA and Michigan EA would NOT have been allowed unless you were a Michigan resident. </p>
<p>I always thought that SCEA was a poor idea because all of the SCEA schools are really hard to get into, SCEA doesn’t boost your chances, and thus it only minimally reduces the expected number of applications that you have to file during Christmas break. It’s a lot of pressure to be frantically writing applications when the rest of your family wants to go skiing!</p>
<p>Applying to multiple regular EA schools like MIT and Chicago, assuming that they are high choices, makes more sense because you get multiple chances to reduce the size of that Christmas list.</p>
<p>Since 2009, Yale and other SCEA schools amended their policy. One is allowed to do Yale SCEA and a public school’s EA (such as UMich), whether in state or not.</p>
<p>The benefit to SCEA is two fold. For the student, if he/she is willing to undergo the earlier app process, he/she might get an early ADMIT decision which is extremely valuable. For the schools, it clears out many applications (whether admit/reject/defer) to spread the workload out as well as get notification of some great candidates to pursue.</p>