<p>Just out of curiosity: Do the elite colleges compare early action admit lists in order to see who is really interested in their school for the Regular round?</p>
<p>That would suck. :(</p>
<p>I suddenly got an image of 5 year old kids playing outside comparing Pokemon cards...</p>
<p>I heard that this is true; many people that are accepted into Harvard early, for instance, would be waitlisted at Stanford (if they applied regular) until they showed enough interest in the school...</p>
<p>aside for financial concerns, i dont know why people would do that. i think the idea of ea is to apply at your first choice college. if you get in, why would you apply else where? if i got in ea at harvard, id be done. id start working on getting scholarship money instead of working on more colleges. any thoughts?</p>
<p>They do share lists but not to assess your interest in a school. They do so to see if you applied elsewhere against their rules.</p>
<p>Shark Bite, the point of early action is not necessarily to apply to your first choice school. If I get in, I still plan on applying to three other schools. Since I had the same level of interest in four schools, I did not want to apply early decision, and I didn't have an essay ready for my only other early action school. Therefore, I applied to Harvard early.</p>