ie, apply to Brown ED but apply to MIT at the same time. if i got into brown i’d go there, if rejected from brown accepted to mIT i could go there, if rejected from both then yeah, if accepted from both then go to brown. right?
thanks
MIT’s ED policy is non-binding so you can apply to other places ED as long as you aren’t breaking their rules. It all depends on the colleges’ policies.
Basically, you can only apply to one school ED, be that Brown, UPenn, Duke, etc. Afterwards, you can apply to as many EA (notice this is not SCEA) schools as you want, such as uChicago and MIT. I believe you can apply to public state universities as well.
@bzhang42 That’s not always the case. If you apply EA to Georgetown, you can’t apply ED.
Check the EA/ED policies of all the schools you want to do and see if there is any conflict.
Look carefully on each school’s website for their policy. It is generally made very clear.
This. This is the policy from Brown:
And MIT’s EA policy is:
Those could work. Check each school.
I was at a Brown info session in March and they specifically used MIT as an example of an EA school you could apply to while also applying ED to Brown. You just can’t apply to any kind of restrictive EA school while applying ED to Brown. Now, that’s just Brown, other schools with ED may have different policies and you will have to carefully check each one.