<p>hey, someone mentioned to me that some schools limit you to only applying early action at one college...i knew this was true of early decision schools, but would i be limited to only applying early action to notre dame, and not any other school?</p>
<p>The only schools that place this limit on you are Harvard, Yale and Stanford. Georgetown strongly discourages applying to more than one EA or ED school. All other EA schools are open EA, meaning you can apply to as moany other EA schools as you would like. Schools on the open EA list are ND, BC, Uof Chicago, MIT, CalTech, UNC, etc.</p>
<p>okay thanks!</p>
<p>Eagle, </p>
<p>I plan on applying EA at both GTown and UND. Does this hurt my chances at all or is this a bad strategy? Does "strongly discourages" pretty much mean dont do it?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>ND doesn't ask if you are applying EA or ED anywhere else, so it won't hurt you there. Does Georgetown ask? If they do, I'd naturally think they'd like to see that they are your "first choice", but I'm not sure about that.</p>
<p>Blue, you can't apply EA to both Georgetown and Notre Dame. Georgetown has single choice early action (SCEA) policy.. you can only apply EA there and nowhere else.</p>
<p>Blue,</p>
<p>You can apply to both ND and GTown EA if you like. Georgetown does not have an SCEA policy. To avoid the confusion of all the different programs and how each school administers them let me quote from the GTown memo to prospective first year students:</p>
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Students are welcome to apply to other Early Action programs or to Regular Decision programs while at the same time applying to Georgetown's Early Action program.
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<p>see:</p>
<p>What uhhh may be referring to is their comment about applying elsewhere ED. Note that their over-riding policy is that students should be free to decide until May 1, no binding commitment. In fact, the only catholic school that has an ED policy that I have found is Holy Cross.</p>
<p>My bad! I wasn't aware that you could apply to other EA's as long as you don't apply ED.</p>
<p>Uhhh,</p>
<p>It is only Stanford, Harvard and Yale that put a restriction on their EA application. If you read each of their policies there are exceptions. </p>
<p>The terms of EA, ED and SCEA are not consistent. Many of the ED schools allow you to apply to EA schools at the same time. However, you must pull your application to those schools once you are accepted to the ED school.</p>
<p>It makes it hard for the students to determine what is best for them and to remain within the guidelines. Imagine what it is like for the HS guidance counselors trying to keep it all straight!</p>
<p>Generally speaking the catholic schools do not believe in ED and the rationale is similar to the Georgetown explanation about why they do not have ED. They want to allow the student until May 1 to make their final decision.</p>