<p>If you did early decision at Penn, could you still apply to schools that had early action? I would go to Penn if I got in, but I would like to apply to other early action schools because I think it would help and because I know I would have my applications done by November.</p>
<p>Nope. Unless it's Early Decision II/Early Action to a school that had deadlines after December 14 (when Penn's early Decision round is over).</p>
<p>Though some schools allow you to do both, the Ivy's don't. You can only have one EARLY anything when applying between Ivy school, according to their guidelines. Eg ED Penn, but can't SCEA Yale. However, I have heard you can do ED Cornell and EA to a non ivy.</p>
<p>I applied ED to Penn and EA to Chicago. Some people apply ED to Penn and also tack on MIT and other schools with non restrictive EA. Stanford, Yale, Georgetown, and BC are the only schools that will not allow you to apply EA there and ED elsewhere. There might be others, but none that I can think of off the top of my head. Penn doesn't care if you have 100 acceptances from EA before December 14 (unless any of them are ED or restrictive EA), you can still be admitted to Penn and you still have to go here.</p>
<p>Zester has it wrong. The only Ivy ED college that restricts applicants from applying elsewhere EA at the same time is Brown. Penn, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth: don't care. Yale: It's EA, but you can't apply anywhere else ED or EA. (Harvard and Princeton don't have EA or ED at all anymore.)</p>
<p>Of course, you can only apply to one ED college at a time, and if you are admitted you have to go there.</p>
<p>Oh never mind then.
But the Ivy League policy that I read in the Penn supplement made it seem that you can only apply to one EARLY of anything, and that's almost exactly as it's written.</p>
<p>JHS is right. Only does Brown restricts applicants from applying other EA's in Ivy League.</p>
<p>You can't apply to more than one Ivy early. You also cannot be admitted to any other Ivy if you are admitted early, with the exception of getting admitted to Yale EA.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks for the help. So I can apply to Penn Wharton ED and MIT EA. bottom line.</p>
<p>yes you can</p>
<p>This is really helpful. I’ve been trying to get an answer to this question for a while now. So I can apply early decision to Penn AND early action to UVA?</p>
<p>(a) This is a 3-year-old thread. It’s not completely accurate anymore. Brown no longer restricts its ED applicants from applying EA elsewhere.</p>
<p>(b) Penn doesn’t care whether you apply to UVA EA at the same time you apply ED to Penn, because it is clear that if Penn says yes ED you have agreed to go to Penn, whether or not UVA accepts you. However, UVA may care – they may not want to get EA applications from students who have made a commitment to go somewhere else if that school accepts them ED. Of the top-rank schools with EA programs, some prohibit simultaneous ED applications (Georgetown), some don’t care (MIT), and some seem to be waffling (Chicago – admissions people say “we ask that you not do it,” but there’s no prohibition in the rules). And of course all the SCEA schools (HYPS) prohibit it for private universities, but permit it for some (Yale) or all (Harvard, Stanford) public universities.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen UVA’s rules yet, but it wouldn’t shock me at all if they said “if you apply here EA, you cannot submit a binding ED I application anywhere”. </p>
<p>All of the EA schools will let you submit ED II applications, because you can withdraw those or convert them to RD after you hear (favorably) from the EA school. If, knowing that you have been admitted to EA College, you still go forward with an ED II application elsewhere, that’s fine, you are clearly indicating that you prefer ED College over EA College head-to-head. What EA sollege doesn’t want is for you to say “EA College is really my first choice, but if they turn me down I will never get into Brownmouth, my second choice, RD. So I better apply ED to Brownmouth and EA to EA College. I’ll be a little sad if they both accept me and I have to go to second-choice Brownmouth. But overall this is my best shot at one of the two.”</p>
<p>So you have to read UVA’s website carefully, and maybe call them to ask.</p>
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<p>[University</a> of Virginia to Offer ‘Early Action’ Admissions Beginning in 2011](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=13501]University”>http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=13501)</p>
<p>So yes, you can apply ED to Penn and EA to UVA at the same time. :)</p>
<p>Nice. Thanks! :D</p>