<p>@xFirefirex Thanks for clearing the confusion. </p>
<p>Let’s get rid of the “legally” statement on here. No one can make you go anywhere, even if you applied ED. No one has ever been taken to court over backing out of an ED decision. The schools have an easy remedy, they simply go to the next person on their list that didn’t get the initial acceptance because you did. That said, just as important if not more important is that you have promised certain things when you apply ED or SCEA. The SC means single choice for ANY kind of early action, which includes ED. So when you apply ED or SCEA you shouldn’t (I won’t say cannot because of course you “can”) apply to anywhere else where you are making a commitment, be it to attend that school if accepted and/or that you are not applying anywhere else early. You would be violating a promise and that is much more important in this particular context than any illusory legal implications.</p>
<p>Personally I see no harm in applying ED to a school and still applying EA (not SCEA) to other schools. Because if you get accepted to the ED school you are going to ignore any other result anyway. There is no real harm to the EA school, they didn’t ask you to commit to their school. I personally believe it is unreasonable for an ED school to ask you not to apply EA to other schools, because they have already asked you to promise to attend there if accepted. So why should they care where else you apply, even EA? SCEA schools, on the other hand, are reasonable in asking you not to apply ED or EA elsewhere, because they have foregone the assurance you will attend if accepted. So they are counting on your bias to choose them because you it is the only place you have another decision from by December, and probably January and February (excluding schools that give quick answers for RD applications).</p>
<p>I also believe it is unreasonable for an EA school to ask you not to apply to them EA if you applied ED to another school. I checked a few schools that have EA (Tulane, UNC-CH, U Miami) and none of them seem to indicate that applying EA means you cannot apply ED to other schools. I think Georgetown and BC saying that makes no sense. BC is particularly weird. As stated on here, they say it is OK to apply EA if you apply EDII somewhere but not ED. Does that even pertain here? Don’t EDII apps happen after the ED and EA notification deadlines? Anyway, Georgetown says it is because if you apply somewhere for a binding decision, then you will no longer consider Georgetown. If that is what they want without making you commit to Georgetown, they should do SCEA. There is a well known path for them to achieve their goal. I guess they don’t want to restrict you from other EA applications, which SCEA does. Personally I still think their EA policy is needlessly restrictive. It will be interesting to see how many other people will cite schools that have a similar policy to Gtown and BC. Having said all that, if Gtown or BC ask you right on the app if you have applied ED elsewhere and you have, you need to answer honestly, which at their school will mean your application for EA will be thrown out anyway. I have no idea if it would be put into their RD pool in that case.</p>
<p>OK, back to who applied ED, SCEA and/or EA and to where. I just wanted to address some of the statements being made here, especially the term “legally”.</p>
<p>EA to University of Michigan! And I’ve finished my first two drafts of my common app essay and am finished with a few of my supplement essays 
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<p>I plan on applying EA to Ohio State, University of Maryland CP, and Stony Brook University just to get those apps out of the way. I am not certain about applying to Northeastern EA because while I want and kind of need merit scholarships there, I want to build up my application 7th semester, but I think Northeastern might give out more merit aid in EA. I don’t plan on applying EA to my reach schools for the same reason i don’t want to apply to Northeastern early, and none of the schools offering ED on my list are my top choice.</p>
<p>@430ktk I wish Harvard would have done ED this year instead. Oh well.</p>
<p>so @xFirefirex Could I put Cornell ED and apply to UChicago ya UMich EA? </p>
<p>Amherst ED, not sure where to EA… </p>
<p>@SuperScientist01 Yep! Just remember that if you get accepted to Cornell ED you will have to immediately withdraw your applications to any other school.</p>
<p>@xFirefirex sure
So in ED, I can apply with colleges with EA which is non binding right? but not SCEA like Princeton</p>
<p>I’m applying to Claremont McKenna College ED! It’s my top choice by far, and though my stats are good for their admissions process, I’m hoping it will boost my chances of getting in…</p>
<p>Wait just kidding… I just visited Vassar and loved it, maybe even more than Middlebury… the struggle…</p>
<p>@SuperScientist01 Correct! The reason you can do this is because your ED college will know you will attend so they’re not worried about you applying to an EA colleges since you’re obligated to attend the ED school if accepted.
However, the SCEA schools only let you apply to their school early because if they didn’t, it would defeat the purpose of “selective choice” early action. They want to give you the choice of attending their school while having a fairly high probability of you actually coming.
This keeps their yield high.</p>
<p>So, with ED you can apply to any school EA whether it’s public or private but only one school ED. If accepted to the ED school, you have to withdraw your other applications or decline admission to any schools you may have already been accepted to.</p>
<p>With SCEA, you can only apply to the SCEA school and any public (often state schools) EA.</p>
<p>@xFirefirex thanks!!!</p>
<p>NYU but I haven’t started my common app. TBH, I’m clueless when it comes to common app, I don’t even know when to start. </p>
<p>@jaydimez I believe the commonapp resets august 1st so its not worth filling out before then. The essays should be the same though if you want to start working on them (just save in word or something)</p>
<p>@jaydimez from the advice I have heard, start the essays (won’t change from last year). Senior year first semester can be hell with so many essays to write. </p>
<p>@SuperScientist01 and @xfirefirex you really have to check the specific policies of the schools where you looking at doing ED and EA. For example, at the beginning of this thread I said that my D planned to apply ED to Pomona and EA to Georgetown. Someone correctly pointed out to me that Georgetown’s EA policy is that you cannot apply to a binding ED program somewhere else, but other nonrestrictive EA programs are OK. Not every EA school has that restriction, but you need to check.</p>
<p>Have some people already interviewed? </p>
<p>@Corinthian I am using UCA and there they are allowing EA to UChicago and Cornell ED but not to Princeton SCEA. </p>
<p>I applied to my first choice school, Missouri University of Science and Technology, in June and was admitted last week. I’m pretty excited!</p>