I am thinking of applying:
Single-choice Early Action to Yale
Early Decision to WashU or penn
Thanks so much for all of your help!
-welcometomylife
Only if either WashU or Penn has ED II with notification after January 1 - otherwise no.
http://admissions.yale.edu/faq/single-choice-early-action#t184n1810
No. That’s what “Single Choice” means: you can’t apply to any other early decision or early action program, with exceptions that don’t apply to Penn or WashU.
A number of colleges that have plain old “early action,” not “single choice early action,” do allow candidates to apply early action at the same time they are applying early decision to another college. MIT and the University of Chicago are in that group. Some others allow candidates to apply to any non-binding early action program, but not to an early decision program under which they have basically committed to enrolling if they are accepted. Two colleges with that rule are Georgetown and BC; it’s often called “restricted early action” or REA (a term that is also sometimes applied to HYPS’ very different programs). The “single choice” variant, SCEA, only exists at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford.
The exceptions to the “single choice” rule can be important. They generally cover public universities and ED II applications where there is no decision until mid-January.