<p>DD is thinking of applying to Northwestern ED. Can she also apply to EA and rolling schools at the same time, withdrawing her applications to the other schools upon acceptance to Northwestern?</p>
<p>Yes…</p>
<p>But one caveat…check the policies for each school. For example, some schools have restrictive Early Action policies such as Yale’s Single Choice Early Action or Stanford’s Restrictive Early Action Policy.</p>
<p>In general, yes, you could apply EA elsewhere – NU has no restrictions so long as you “pledge” to withdraw all other apps if accepted. However, some other schools won’t let you EA there if you’ve ED elsewhere. Georgetown is one such example, Yale another. So you need to check the other schools; it’s their restriction not NU’s. Good luck!</p>
<p>EA colleges that will not let you apply to any other early program (with limited exceptions): Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, UVa, Tulane SCEA</p>
<p>EA colleges that will not let you apply to any binding early program (ED) but will let you submit other non-binding EA applications: Georgetown, Boston College, Notre Dame?</p>
<p>EA colleges that do not restrict you from a simultaneous ED application: MIT, University of Chicago, Caltech, Tulane EA</p>
<p>(Obviously not a comprehensive list.)</p>
<p>This is very useful thread. I’ve always assumed that applying ED means you can’t apply EA anywhere.
I guess it depends on the school.</p>
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<p>What do you mean by “limited exceptions” ? Athletes?</p>
<p>EA single choice is the one that does not let you apply anywhere else. I personally dislike the fact that Harvard just went back to it :(</p>
<p>Kelowna: It’s not completely true that SCEA is “the one that does not let you apply anywhere else.” There may be some differences among the SCEA schools, but I think the ones in place up to now let you apply early action to an in-state public, rolling admissions (which is the functional equivalent of early action) to any public, ED II, and special scholarship programs with early notification as long as they are not binding. What’s basically true is that SCEA schools don’t let you apply EA to any colleges they remotely see as meaningful competitors (except, perhaps, for Michigan residents, who can apply EA to Michigan).</p>
<p>I thought UVA is EA not SCEA?</p>
<p>As I understand it (this is S12’s plan), he is applying to Stanford SCEA, which prevents him from applying early to any other private school but does not prevent him from submitting early applications to schools in the UC or California public systems (or schools with rolling admission, which he doesn’t plan to do). Since his grades and scores will almost certainly qualify him as a California resident for “guaranteed” admission to at least one of the UC schools, that should take some of the pressure off even if he doesn’t get EA at Stanford.</p>
<p>Agree with the others that you need to read the fine print when it comes to ED, Single Choice EA, etc. Stanford does a good job of coming right out and saying what their exceptions are. Obviously for them, how to handle applications to the UC system (which are due by the end of November) is important.</p>
<p>My concern is in another direction. If your D would accept a full ride to one of her other colleges over Northwestern, then I wouldn’t go the ED route. I suppose if the rolling admission school or EA school accepted your D and gave her a great financial package, all before Northwestern gave her an acceptance–you could possibly change your Northwestern ED app to regular decision. </p>
<p>I just wouldn’t want you to have to start a thread months from now about whether it is ethical to back out of the Northwestern ED acceptance because their financial package wasn’t as good for your family finances as the great package from another school.</p>
<p>Yes, absolutely. You should ED at Northwestern (or any school for that matter) ONLY if a) it is truly your top choice and you’re willing to forsake any others and b) finances are not an issue. That may be unfortunate, but that’s what it is.</p>
<p>I would call the school to make sure. That is what I did after reading this thread. Mine is thinking of applying in 2013 but I don’t want to call in 2013, I’m too scared admission officers think I’m a helicopter parent.</p>
<p>I don’t know what goes through people’s minds sometimes – if you don’t want a school to think you’re a helicopter parent, then you simply don’t identify yourself during the phone call. Whew, problem solved. (Not directed at you, drgoogle, just a general observation)</p>
<p>[SoozieVT–please clear some room in your message box. We have a date for our visit to NH/VT.]</p>
<p>Now back to our regularly scheduled program…</p>
<p>DrGoogle, unless $250k+ for your child’s education is sitting in a bank account with just your child’s name on it, it’s not being a helicopter parent to ask the admissions office about the ramifications of applying ED or SCEA, or clarifying any restrictions for EA. If, for example, applying SCEA means passing up early scholarship deadlines at other private schools (I’m thinking USC here), that might have real financial implications for the family. </p>
<p>Of course, Pizzagirl’s solution (don’t identify yourself) works just fine, too. :)</p>
<p>I just want to point out that University of California applications aren’t a problem for anyone (not just California residents) under any definition. They are due by 11/30, but they are clearly all regular applications, not early ones, since the UC system doesn’t even promise an answer before April 15. They beat that deadline regularly by some weeks, of course, but they don’t send anyone an admission notice in December (other than athletes under an NLI, maybe, but they are not going to be applying SCEA anywhere).</p>
<p>(Recruitable athletes present a whole series of issues, since they have the possibility of getting a firm admission decision out of almost any college without applying to an “early” program. And nothing stops Dartmouth, say, from sending a likely letter to any kid who has submitted a regular application there, and has applied SCEA to Harvard.)</p>
<p>I didn’t identifying myself but I’m sure they could tell I was not a student. I know for D1, they asked what her name was and I did not give them her name.
Is it correct assumption that a student can apply EA, ED, RD at the same time and if accepted ED at one school, then the student has to withdraw from all the other schools.</p>
<p>Yup…with the caveat that if you’ve applied for FA, you can wait to withdraw the other apps until you’re sure that you’ll be accepting the ED offer and FA package.</p>
<p>Yes, from a Northwestern ED perspective, you can do this. My younger son applied ED to Northwestern, EA to another school and rolling to two other schools. It was clear from all of the relevant schools’ admissions websites that this was OK. Of course if admitted to NU, you would need to withdraw all other applications and decline any other offers of admission.</p>
<p>I agree with others above that you should check with the EA schools you are considering whether it is OK to apply ED. My older son did this at the suggestion of his high school’s college counselor - he called the admissions offices at both his ED school (Colgate) and EA school (Boston College) to make sure it was OK, and he was told it was. Neither office asked for his name. Boston College has since changed its rules and you may not apply ED if applying EA to BC these days.</p>
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<p>See what JHS wrote just a few posts above. Some EA’s let you apply ED elsewhere, others don’t. But yes, the ED agreement trumps all and you have to withdraw.</p>
<p>For your RD apps, you might want to prepare them but just not hit submit til you get your ED decision back – you could save a few bucks. (This was easier said that done - my kids still wound up with a few RD apps completed that they then had to withdraw.)</p>