<p>So what is the story? The official word is that EA does not provide ANY statistical advantage to the applicant. True? Everyone has their own philosophy on this. Is there rhetoric involved from the Admissions office here? Who knows the answers?</p>
<p>For a school such as Harvard, they won’t give any boost to anyone in the grey area. They’ll just waitlist you and wait to compare you with the RD pool. If you aren’t in the grey area and clearly are admittable (is this a word? LOL), they’ll take you right away. The clear rejects also get cleared off the docket as well.</p>
<p>The thoughts about EA or ED boost come from schools where they hope to lock in applicants as a way to keep them from applying (and possibly getting admitted) to schools like HYP. But clearly, the schools at the top of the food chain don’t feel any pressure to give EA/ED advantage.</p>
<p>Does Harvard have Early Action for high school class of 2012? If they do, is it the restrictive early action? I thought Harvard didn’t have early admission stuff anymore.</p>
<p>they reinstated it for the class of 2012 - it’s non-binding.</p>
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It is non-binding, although it is also single choice/restrictive (SCEA).</p>
<p>Well, for the few real competent (and lucky) applicants the main advantage of EA is to be able to have a very merry Christmas and happy New Year and maybe also to save some application fees and a lot of sleeps…</p>
<p>I have a question. Is the Nov SAT test score be considered in Early Action??</p>
<p>yes. list H when taking test.</p>