Applying to Safeties in the Early Round?

[CrazyPluto]

<p>Hi I'm rounding up my list of colleges and am about done what colleges I want to apply to in the early round</p>

<p>ED Penn
EA MIT
EA Umich Ann Arbor
EA Boston College
EA UMiami
EA Penn State (safety [scholarship opp.])
EA Upitt (safety [scholarship opp.])</p>

<p>Now I don't know much about the process of applying and such, but I know that applying to 7 schools in the early round is not normal. Is there any drawback to applying to so many schools in the early round? Or maybe the work that it will take is simply unreasonable? </p>

<p>Because of those concerns I was thinking of just applying to my safeties in the RD round (if I get rejected Penn ED). Would that be a smart move? Would I lose out on scholarhsip oppurtunities? thanks.</p>

[SlitheyTove]

<p>Applying to multiple schools early, even when you’re applying to another school ED, is a great idea. You can certainly get all of the application work done early, which will make for a much more relaxed senior year, or give you time after the ED/EA apps to work on any RD apps. You’ll have most of your essays written over the summer–you’ll be VERY glad about this during the start of your senior year.</p>

<p>Check on details. For instance, I seem to recall that BC’s EA won’t let you apply to other schools EA or ED. If that’s true, you’ll want to hold back your BC application until after hearing from an ED school. U Pitt has rolling admissions, so you want to get that application (and any other rolling apps) in as early as possible to maximize your chances for merit money and admissions. Plus, it’ll be nice to have acceptances in hand before ED/EA decisions are announced. </p>

<p>If you are going to apply ED, have you had the money talk with your family? How much can they afford to pay for your college education? Have you run a FAFSA estimator to get a sense of your family’s EFC (usually about 25-33% of household net income)? Make sure that you understand the finances of choosing ED instead of RD. Have you visited the school?</p>

[CrazyPluto]

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Applying to multiple schools early, even when you’re applying to another school ED, is a great idea. You can certainly get all of the application work done early, which will make for a much more relaxed senior year, or give you time after the ED/EA apps to work on any RD apps. You’ll have most of your essays written over the summer–you’ll be VERY glad about this during the start of your senior year.</p>

<p>Check on details. For instance, I seem to recall that BC’s EA won’t let you apply to other schools EA or ED. If that’s true, you’ll want to hold back your BC application until after hearing from an ED school. U Pitt has rolling admissions, so you want to get that application (and any other rolling apps) in as early as possible to maximize your chances for merit money and admissions. Plus, it’ll be nice to have acceptances in hand before ED/EA decisions are announced. </p>

<p>If you are going to apply ED, have you had the money talk with your family? How much can they afford to pay for your college education? Have you run a FAFSA estimator to get a sense of your family’s EFC (usually about 25-33% of household net income)? Make sure that you understand the finances of choosing ED instead of RD. Have you visited the school?

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<p>Wow, thanks. So I will definitely be taking full advantage of applying to more than a couple EA schools (in addition to ED Penn). </p>

<p>and yeah, just checked. BC has a REA program… thank for letting me know. I thought it was just Yale, Stanford (and now harvard and princeton) who had a restrictive EA program</p>