<p>My son will be applying ED1 to a school. Can he also apply to non-binding, non-restrictive, non-single choice Early Action schools or is this breaking the Early Decision agreement? I thought he could as long as he withdrew any application or denied any offer of admission. </p>
<p>Generally, ED does not prevent applying to other schools with non-binding EA, rolling, or other such admissions schedules. However, sometimes EA is restricted or single choice EA (REA or SCEA), where the REA or SCEA school does not want you to apply to any binding ED schools as well.</p>
<p>Read all ED and EA restrictions carefully, in case the school in question has something unusual.</p>
<p>generally yes, however some schools restrict their ED applicants - the one I have heard about is Georgetown </p>
<p>Georgetown doesn’t have ED.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, it can work. As long as he only applies to one ED. It is important to read the fine print of the ED (and the EA) applications in case there is anything more restrictive in there.</p>
<p>Georgetown is single choice Early Action which restricts applying early to other schools. The Early Action schools he has chosen have no restrictions and are non-binding. Thanks for the input.</p>
<p>Georgetown is not SCEA. You can apply to other schools EA but no schools ED.</p>
<p><a href=“http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/firstyear/early-action”>http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/firstyear/early-action</a></p>
<p>You are right - my mistake, but Georgetown is restrictive regarding ED when applying EA. </p>
<p>True dat. :)</p>
<p>Yes, emphasizing what others are saying:</p>
<p>At the moment, I know of no ED college that forbids applicants to apply EA elsewhere. Brown used to do that, but it stopped several years ago (probably when they realized it was having a negative effect on the number of ED applications to Brown).</p>
<p>You have to read everyone’s rules. Some, but not all, EA colleges require that EA applicants not apply to a potentially binding ED program at the same time they are applying EA, but they permit applying to multiple non-binding EA programs. Georgetown and BC are probably the most prominent of these, but there may be others. Four require that you only have one EA application – so-called Single Choice Early Action, or SCEA (and sometimes REA). That’s Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford, and I don’t think anyone else. Most colleges with EA programs, including MIT and Chicago, so far, do not place any restrictions on their EA applicants.</p>
<p>You should pay attention to the status of ED II in everyone’s rules, too. For example, Harvard permits REA applicants to apply to ED II programs, so long as the decisions are communicated after Harvard’s EA decision. (In other words, so long as you can withdraw your application if you get into Harvard, but you don’t have to withdraw it.) Georgetown, on the other hand, forbids EA applicants who have been offered admission to apply to any ED II program, but permits EA applicants who have been deferred to apply ED II.</p>
<p>Baylor has SCEA as well now, plus EA … <a href=“Undergraduate Admissions | Baylor University”>Undergraduate Admissions | Baylor University;