Can I send both Early Decision and Restrictive Early Action?

Applying to College
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<p>I have sent an ED to Johns Hopkins and an REA to Stanford University. Have I done something wrong? Can I send more REA applications before November 1? Please help. </p>

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<p>You may not. If you plan to go to a school of this caliber you need to learn to do research and read directions. I’m not sure how your guidance counselor let both applications go out. Change one of them to RD before the Nov. 1 deadline. And don’t apply to other REA schools.<br>
<a href=“Page Not Found : Stanford University”>http://admission.stanford.edu/application/decision_process/restrictive.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I don’t think you were supposed to do both. I just looked it up to make sure, and with REA you’re not supposed to apply early anywhere else unless it’s non-binding rolling admission. And ED is binding, so that doesn’t necessarily work…</p>

<p>Here’s a list of exceptions:
A college outside of the US
A non-binding rolling admission program (like I mentioned above)
A public college or university whose admission is not binding.
An ED II program, if notification of admission occurs after January 1</p>

<p>So NOOO don’t send in any more REA applications.</p>

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<p>But the common-application should disallow me if such an option isn’t available. Now that I’ve sent an REA and ED, am I in any sort of trouble?</p>

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<p>I am an international applicant from India and probably the only one applying in the United States
from my school. We don’t have guidance counselors. I’ve been doing all this on my own. </p>

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<p>Yeah that’s what you would think it would do. Maybe because the Stanford one isn’t binding it let you. I doubt you’re in trouble, and since S isn’t binding, if you get accepted to JH just make sure S knows you’re not applying anymore.</p>

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<p>Do you need any kind of financial aid for these schools?!!</p>

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<p>I do need financial-aid. A LOT of financial aid.
Say JHU accepts me and S doesn’t, next step?
And I’m probably in a LOT of trouble if both of them select me. :P</p>

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<p>But it clearly says I’m free to compare financial aid packages in Early applications. If I’m sending my application only to one college, what am I supposed to compare? </p>

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<p>Ohhhh goodness then. You’re going to have an extremely difficult time getting into these schools purely based on your financial need. It’s already 10x harder for you since you’re international, but since you need a lot of FA, it’s 100x harder. No school is need-blind to international applicants. Even if you have the most amazing stats in the world and wow them with your essay, it’ll be hard to get in. But getting FA on top of that?? Definitely look into getting as much as you can from scholarships because you won’t get much FA in the US. Look into any kind of full tuition merit scholarship that you can find and apply apply apply!</p>

<p>If JHU accepts you, awesome! You go there and retract your application from S. And if both select you, you still go to JHU because ED is binding. </p>

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<p>That’s one of the catches to ED. You don’t get to compare FA packages from 6 different schools, or however many. I think there might be a loophole, but I’m not sure exactly what it is.</p>

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<p>I know it’s very hard to get in. Studying in the US has always been my plan B. And if it works, why not. I guess I should just request a change in the status of my application at one of the colleges. I dont want to take risks with the finest institutions in the world. </p>

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<p>OP, you are ignoring the very first response here. Stanford’s Early Action policy prohibits you from applying elsewhere Early Decision.</p>

<p>"Restrictive Early Action Policy</p>

<pre><code>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.
</code></pre>

<p>You need to contact either Stanford or JHU and ask them to convert your application to Regular Decision.</p>

<p>Edited: I see that you are going to change one of them. Good.</p>

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<p>i suggest you retract one of the two asap because if they find out, both will probably rescind you even if you get in and other colleges may blacklist you.</p>

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<p>Can anyone help me out with retracting my application from Johns Hopkins?</p>

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<p>And sending it as Regular Decision?</p>

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<p>Just call JHU’s admissions department on Monday and ask them how you go about converting your ED application to RD.</p>

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<p>Start with emailing admissions and asking how you can change it to RD.</p>