<p>I heard that someone has just been deferred by Harvard but admitted early action to Yale. Is this even possible? I thought Harvard and Yale each allowed only single-choice or restrictive early action, meaning an applicant could not apply early action to both at the same time.</p>
<p>Perhaps they submitted their apps early enough so that Yale just decided to accept them in the EA timeframe? I’ve heard of that before, but I’m not sure if that’s actually true.</p>
<p>Sorry, but that scenario is most likely a fabrication. </p>
<p>It’s impossible for a student to apply to two SCEA schools at the same time with the Common Application; the system just will not let you complete the second SCEA app. Likewise, if a high school uses naviance, the system will not allow electronic records to be sent. In addition, if a high school’s college office or guidance counselor sends a student transcript to two SCEA schools, that high school, if found out, would be blacklisted by both colleges. The only way that scenario is even remotely possible is if the applicant was a recruited athlete being pursued by both schools. For some reason, if Harvard Admissions didn’t pick him up early, Yale (with a coaches push) could pick him up the next day. But again, it’s extremely unlikely. I suspect the story is a complete falsehood.</p>
<p>gibby - are you sure commonapp stops you?</p>
<p>They most likely did it through Questbridge. I know of multiple people who did multiple early applications (including REA) through Questbridge.</p>
<p>Harvard does not accept QB.</p>
<p>Ahh I see, my bad.</p>
<p>there are three or four other top schools which are part of QB EA and you can apply to them all at once or you can include some ED schools which will be binding. Harvard is not part of it so one could not do both Harvard and QB.</p>
<p>The student about whom this “story” is going around is not a recruited athlete, so I don’t see how there could be notice of deferral by one SCEA school, Harvard, and notice of acceptance from another SCEA school, Yale, received on the same day. Even more odd is that I am told by a junior at this school that several of the current seniors were deferred by Harvard and admitted to another school early action. How can the college-counseling office be sending transcripts to multiple SCEA schools for each applicant? None of this makes sense. I suspect that some seniors and/or their families are sending out misinformation as smokescreens – nothing more.</p>
<p>If it is true, Harvard will revoke their applications if they find out.</p>
<p>^^ As will Yale. In addition, both colleges, if they find out, will blacklist the high school, so that all students who apply in the future will automatically be denied admission. That is why GC’s never submit multiple transcripts for SCEA schools – there is so much more at stake than just one student’s application.</p>
<p>^That’s horrible! I feel so bad for students at schools where people have done that. How incredibly selfish and unfair to them.</p>
<p>It is my understanding that you may be deferred by Harvard and be accepted EA at any State school. This is the only way.</p>
<p>To set the record straight, I learned just last evening that this student was admitted to Harvard EA (hooray!) and had not even applied to Yale or any other school EA (as was prohibited under his agreement with Harvard as an EA applicant). Such was the awful power of rumor and gossip, that schoolmates were spreading false information on December 14 not just about him but about several Harvard EA applicants. Now the dust has settled and the truth is that three Harvard EA applicants at this one school were admitted, and the others were deferred or rejected.</p>
<p>If people are ever spreading rumors and gossip about me, I hope it’ll be about something a lot more salacious.</p>
<p>@Sikorsky: Haha. seriously. But I guess for some students at a certain age, nothing is a bigger scandal than Harvard acceptances/rejections…not even gossip about hookups after prom…</p>