<p>On the Common app, Boston College is listed as having restrictive early action (like Yale and Stanford SCEA) But the view book that I received in the mail today and their website says that applicants can apply to any school EA but not ED.</p>
<p>“Students are free to apply to other Early Action and Regular Decision programs”
<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/admission/undergrad/process/deadlines.html[/url]”>http://www.bc.edu/admission/undergrad/process/deadlines.html</a></p>
<p>What gives?</p>
<p>bump, i really want to apply to villanova EA as well...</p>
<p>OK so at BC you can apply to BC EA and Notre Dame EA but not BC EA and JHU ED. YOu get it? You can apply to multiple non-binding EA programs but not an EA and an ED.</p>
<p>ok gotcha, all the other colleges that I am applying early to are EA non-binding. I wish the common app was more specific about this.</p>
<p>BC's EA is non-binding also...that's an EA rule. BUT you can not apply to BC and another school EA using the Common App. Hopefully your other schools don't REQUIRE the common app or else you CANT apply to them early action .</p>
<p>I was wondering the same thing so I asked the Common App and that's what they said.</p>
<p>thats kind of stupid....</p>
<p>yea im pretty sure since BC is EA restricted, its like ED in that you can only apply EA to BC, but its non binding unlike ED.</p>
<p>My other EA schools are UChicago, Georgetown, and UGA. All of them do not use the common app, so I guess I can apply to BC EA using the common app.
If their site says that you can apply to other non-binding EA programs, then why can't you do that through the common app?</p>
<p>i feel like thats not true, it just makes no logical sense. i would double check with your counselor before you do that.</p>
<p>IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE! That's exactly what I thought!
Of course it doesn't hurt to double check. </p>
<p>and metfan, Boston has a different type of Restricted Early Action. It only prohibits you from applying early decision to others schools, not early action. </p>
<p>Common Application, not Boston College, is prohibiting you from apllying that way. Here's the discussion I had.</p>
<p>My initial question
While the Common application site says that Boston COllege only allows Restricted Early Action, their site says "Boston College does not permit students to apply under our Early Action program if they are applying to a binding Early Decision program at another college. Students are free to apply to other Early Action and Regular Decision programs."However, your site will not allow me to click on Boston as an REA, AND click on schools that are also early action.
How do I select Boston College and other colleges that are Early Action?</p>
<p>Their answer
Thank you for your message. The Common App site only allows students to
apply REA to one early program. This is the way the system worked last year, and it is the same for this year. This works for most schools since that is the
way their REA programs work; BC has a different set of rules than most,
however, and allows a student to apply EA to other schools as well. The way the Common App system works is the way it is going to work.
Again, thank you for contacting Technical Support. Please contact us again
if you need additional assistance with this incident.</p>
<p>hope this helps! It's comforting to know that others are going through the same gripe as me!</p>
<p>completely stupid, its obvious you cant apply ED and EA because the ED is binding...</p>
<p>^ Exactly. BC's EA is NOT restrictive, it's open. The ED thing is a given, not a restriction. It's because of a stupid inflexible categorization on Common App's part. </p>
<p>Really, BC should be listed as EA, and other ED schools should be the ones that are incompatible with it.</p>
<p>Luckily, I have only two EA schools: BC and another which does not use Common App.</p>
<p>but nova uses the common app and has EA, can i do both EA?</p>
<p>yeah, you can definetly do both EA.. i did it last year</p>
<p>The Common Application has finally changed it! I guess they've seen enough complaints ;-) You can now apply to Boston College EA and other schools usign the common app.</p>
<p>By the way, sorry if I confused anyone with saying BC has a different type of REA. I was referring to what teh Common App was saying. I also didn't know that you couldn't apply ED to one school and EA to another...I was sure that many of my friends did that last year and that was the whole purpose of the ED statement saying you must withdraw other applications if youre accepted. I always thought there were certain schools who only allowed you to apply to their school as ED and no other schools as EA, but I thought that was specified. But Ill admit Im no expert in the ED department! If anyone could provide clarification on the topic, that would be amazing!</p>