Can I apply early action to state school if I apply ED to penn?

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<p>I've tried looking it up on their website already, but the policy seems slightly vague.</p>

<p>I know I cannot apply to another school ED, but would I be allowed to apply to a school EA?</p>

<p>For example, I live in Maryland and in order to be considered for honors programs you have to apply early action. Applying EA UMCP vastly increases your chances of admissions, and if I were rejected by Penn I would be at a disadvantage if I didn't apply to UMCP EA</p>

<p>Help?</p>

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<p>No. Penns ED is exclusive for all early app plans.</p>

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<p>Thats a bummer</p>

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<p>What the #2 post said was false. The OP can apply to any school via non-single-choice Early Action plan, he/she just isn’t allowed to apply ED to any other school concurrently.</p>

<p>Here’s the link to Penn’s Early Decision page.
[Penn</a> Admissions: Applying Early Decision](<a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/applying/early.php]Penn”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/applying/early.php)</p>

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<p>You are allowed to apply early action to other schools if the other school says it’s okay to apply ED somewhere. When I applied ED to Penn, I also applied early response to Michigan and EA to Chicago. You could also apply EA to MIT and Caltech or other state schools because these schools don’t choose to restrict your other early applications. However, you cannot apply early to schools like Yale, Stanford, and Georgetown because in their own policies they state that they don’t allow you to apply EA (or Single Choice EA) while applying ED elsewhere (in this situation that would be Penn).</p>

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<p>I still don’t see any clear guidelines for early action on the page your posted mathematicism, but judging from Poeme’s experience their guidelines just aren’t as clearly worded as I would expect. </p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Oops. My bad. But after searching for a ‘clear’ guideline for a while, the closest I can find is this:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/forms/PennAppSupplement_2011.pdf[/url]”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/forms/PennAppSupplement_2011.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>On page 7 it says that ‘Early Decision applications supersede any Early Action applications’. Therefore I’m extrapolating that Early Action applications to other schools have to be ALLOWED for the statement to exist in the first place. Moreover, a ED application is usually non-exclusive to EA applications unless stated otherwise.(eg. Brown).</p>

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<p>Thanks mathematicism!</p>

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<p>also, i’m pretty sure the UMCP isn’t reallyy early action it’s more like “priority decisioning”</p>

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<p>Technically yes it’s called priority decision, but it’s similar to most non-binding early actions programs and generally prevents “match” students from getting the dreaded “Spring Admit”</p>