Do OTHER colleges know if you've applied Early Decision or Early Action elsewhere?

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<p>Question: Do all the other schools know what your early decision/early action school was? Does this play a role in whether to admit you or not?No, in theory, admission officials will not know if you applied via Early Decision or Early Action to another college. I say “in theory” because sometimes high school guidance offices [...]</p>

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<p>I thought applicants are allowed to only apply for one early decision. On common app i can only apply for one ED. When i tried to apply for a second ED, i was informed that i can only apply for one.</p>

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<p>Some selective college admission deans get to know each other, and sometimes they talk about specific applicants. :)</p>

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<p>You can only apply to ONE Early Decision college AT A TIME. But, in many cases, you can apply to one Early Decision school plus one (or more) Early Action colleges concurrently (with the understanding that, if admitted by the ED college, you must enroll there, even if the EA colleges said yes as well).</p>

<p>However, a growing number of colleges offer more than one round of Early Decision. So if you apply ED to a college in Round 1 but are deferred or denied, you are then free to apply ED to another college in Round 2, if you so choose.</p>

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<p>Which top colleges in the Northeast are now offering two rounds of ED?</p>

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<p>All the NESCAC schools do… Wesleyan, Trinity, Conn College, Bates Colby Bowdoin, Tufts, etc</p>

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<p>The Common App Requirements grid is a good place to look for colleges with ED II (and their deadlines). See: <a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/MemberRequirements.aspx[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/MemberRequirements.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Note also that NOT all NESCAC (New England Small College Athletic Conference) colleges offer ED II. Amherst and Williams are NESCAC members and currently DON’T have ED II. The colleges named above (Wesleyan, Trinity, Conn, Bates, Colby, Bowdoin, and Tufts) DO have ED II, as do Middlebury and Hamilton, the other two NESCAC members not mentioned already.</p>