<p>I want to apply to Northwestern ED and to Michigan EA. Can I do this?</p>
<p>You have to check the rules for both schools. It can be done unless the schools involved have rules prohibiting it. Things change from year to year, so check the current situation. Michigan was always rolling admissions, for instance, when my kids were applying to college, not EA. Rolling admissions was always permissable in combo with another EA or ED school.</p>
<p>Yes, as long as you only apply ED to one college.</p>
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<p>Anyone aware of NU’s/Michigan’s policies?</p>
<p>In a word, no. Under most ED rules, you CANNOT apply to other schools’ early application plans. ED is singular and binding. </p>
<p>ED: One school early, that’s it. First choice right there.</p>
<p>EA: As many as you like, unless it’s…</p>
<p>Restrictive EA: Stanford does this, you can only apply there early, but the decision isn’t binding.</p>
<p>You can’t do ED with EA.</p>
<p>^ That’s just wrong, at least as a general statement, though some colleges may apply restrictions.</p>
<p>From the common app ED agreement:</p>
<p>“While pursuing admission under an Early Decision plan, students may apply to other institutions, but may have only one Early Decision application pending at
any time. … If you are accepted under an Early Decision plan, you must promptly withdraw the applications submitted to other colleges and universities and make
no additional application”</p>
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<p>[Let</a> me google that for you](<a href=“http://lmgtfy.com/?q=early+decision+northwestern+university]Let”>http://lmgtfy.com/?q=early+decision+northwestern+university)</p>
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<p>As far as I am aware there is no Early Decision school that prohibits you from applying early action elsewhere and that is true of Northwestern. You are only prohibited from applying ED elsewhere. The rules to check will be ones with early action. Michigan and most early action schools allow you to apply both EA and ED elsewhere. However, Stanford, Yale, Princeton and Harvard are single choice early action and prohibit you from applying ED and EA elsewhere. Also, there are some EA schools, such as Georgetown. which allow you to apply EA anywhere else but prohibit you from applying ED elsewhere</p>
<p>Hi everyone, brand new member here.
It is my understanding you may apply for one ED only. You may also appy early action and regular action to other schools, but the ED notification will come before any of the other responses, and if you are chosen, it is automatically legally binding, and you are required to immediately withdraw all other applications of any type to all schools.
And the big caveat is you better be prepared to foot the bill completely, as you don’t know your financial award ahead of notification.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure Yale’s SCEA prohibits anything except for regular admission to other schools. I’ve researched it on their website when trying to figure out if doing Yale and UChicago was possible.</p>
<p>Yale prohibits both early decision and early action to other colleges but it has some exceptions. It allows you to apply early action to public universities in your home state. Thus a Michigan resident could apply to Mich EA</p>
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<p>Not so. ED is not legally binding. If you have applied for FA, and your family determines that the FA package from the ED school does not make it affordable for you, you are allowed to turn down the ED acceptance. There are no repercussions. </p>
<p>If you did not apply for FA and you turn down the ED acceptance, there is no legal penalty. However, the spurned ED school may let all other Common App schools know that you turned down an ED acceptance. Unless your EA school is a state school that doesn’t use the CA, you may find your EA acceptance rescinded. Not worth the gamble. </p>
<p>ED decisions might come before EA decisions…or the EA might come first. Depends on the schools.</p>
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<p>Well, you may apply to only one ED at a time. Some schools now have a second round of ED, so if you’re rejected or deferred by your first choice ED school (which you’ll hear in December) you can still apply ED 2 to a school that has that feature (deadline is usually sometime in January).</p>
<p>And you won’t necessarily hear from your ED school first. Some schools, especially large publics, use rolling admissions, so if you apply in September you could get an admissions decision by October or November or early December, before you hear from your ED school. Michigan used to have rolling admissions; now they have Early Action, in which they promise to issue an admissions decision not later than Dec. 23 if your application is complete by Nov. 1. That’s about the same time many ED decisions come out, and I believe some very strong applicants hear from Michigan well before Dec. 23; that’s just the latest. So it’s entirely possible to 1) apply ED to your top choice school, while 2) applying to Michigan EA, and 3) applying to a “rolling admission” school like Wisconsin early, and get answers from 3 very good schools by late December, in time to decide whether you want to 4) apply ED 2 to a school that offers it. This is all perfectly legitimate under the ED rules.</p>
<p>Northwestern ED does allow you to apply EA anywhere else you want as long as you pledge to you will withdraw those apps if admitted to NU. It’s the OTHER school that may have restrictions (that is, be a single choice EA).</p>
<p>“So it’s entirely possible to 1) apply ED to your top choice school, while 2) applying to Michigan EA, and 3) applying to a “rolling admission” school like Wisconsin early, and get answers from 3 very good schools by late December, in time to decide whether you want to 4) apply ED 2 to a school that offers it. This is all perfectly legitimate under the ED rules.”</p>
<p>But if you got into that ED for your top school, the game is over. If not, you are correct, you could still go to ED 2 while having an EA acceptance in hand.</p>
<p>In summation: poster 5 is wrong. You can apply NWU ED and EA at UMIch. If NWU offers you an ED spot, you must withdraw your UMich application: that’s all.</p>
<p>If NWU defers you to RD, then you’re free to do whatever.</p>
<p>T2e64 is correct.</p>
<p>Gotcha. I really wish I could apply ED to NU but it turns out I don’t know if I can :(</p>