<p>Is it possible to apply to one school Early Decision while simultaneously applying to another one (or two) Early Action?</p>
<p>Thanks-- just realized I had no idea if this is permissible.</p>
<p>Check the rules of each college. Applying ED will involve making a commitment to withdraw other applications if admitted, but some colleges--check which ones--are fine with you applying early to other colleges while you apply to them ED. But only apply ED if you really, really want to go to that college, no matter what the financial aid offer and no matter what other offers of admission you have to decline.</p>
<p>tokenadult is right -- check on the specific rules of each specific school in which you are interested -- but in general the answer is going to be "yes".</p>
<p>There are some important exceptions. The SCEA schools -- now only Stanford and Yale -- do not let you apply Early Decision or Early Action anywhere else (that's the "SC" part of SCEA), but they will permit early-filed regular applications to rolling-admissions schools. Some ED schools (Brown, I think?) do not want students to have other EA applications in; some EA schools (Georgetown?) do not want applicants to have applied ED elsewhere. The normal pattern, however, is that the ED schools don't care if you apply elsewhere EA as long as it's clear you are committed to the ED school if it accepts you, and the (many fewer) EA schools are philosophically committed to the open-choice aspect of EA and don't mind (much) if they lose some students to simultaneous ED acceptances.</p>
<p>Hmm...I thought you could only apply to ONE school ED, but at the same time could apply to a rolling admissions school. I didn't think you could apply to TWO schools in the Early Decision round at the same time. The idea of ED is that you have chosen that ONE school that you are dying to attend bar none. For EA, you can apply to as many as you choose, except for SCEA where you can only apply to one (single choice EA).</p>
<p>You can't apply to more than one ED school, but in most cases you can apply to one ED school and as many EA schools as you want (with the exceptions noted). And as far as I have seen, everyone defines applications to rolling admissions schools as "regular" applications, so you can submit those simultaneously with ED and EA, and even SCEA, applications.</p>
<p>Both of my children did this, by the way: one ED/EA/RA set, and one SCEA/RA set.</p>
<p>Right, as JHS says, some ED and EA schools allow the combination, and some don't. All allow rollling admissions.</p>
<p>A common combination, for instance, is ED Columbia, EA Chicago. I've met or heard of many students who applied to both. Both consider it allowable by their particular rules. that's why the best advice is: check each college's admissions rules. There is no hard and fast rule overall, with the exception of only one app from the ED or SCEA group of schools.</p>
<p>Thanks to all... I am less befuddled now! We will proceed accordingly.</p>