<p>Can I apply Early action to Stanford and Early Decision to Johns Hopkins??</p>
<p>Early Decision at JHU requires that if you are admitted you attend, but you are free to pursue early action at otehr schools.</p>
<p>NO, you may not apply ED to JHU and SCEA to Stanford.
This is from Stanfords Restrictive Early action website:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/decision_process/restrictive.html”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/decision_process/restrictive.html</a></p>
<p>"Restrictive Early Action Policy</p>
<pre><code>Applicants agree not to apply to any other private college/university under an Early Action, Restrictive Early Action, Early Decision or Early Notification program. "
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<p>menloparkmom is correct. You cannot apply any ED if applying Stanford SCEA.</p>
<p>Unless you are a very strong candidate for Stanford, I would think twice about accepting their conditions for SCEA. This is a school that routinely rejects 36s and doesn’t waitlist many. By doing Stanford SCEA, you might be giving up a lot of other chances, particularly a lot of EA schools that you might have a better chance at.</p>
<p>Stanford is a little like that super hot girl in your HS that absolutely insists you only be interested in her, and even if you are completely devoted, will still break your heart without a second thought. You really need to question such arrogance. CC won’t let me write what we really think about such schools/girls.</p>
<p>SCEA at Stanford does not block you from most EA schools. You can still apply EA to any public schools or schools that require EA for financial aid. Stanford do reject ~85% from SCEA and defer very few. If one got rejected from SCEA, one will be rejected RD with the same credential anyway. Don’t count on the wait list. It rarely works.</p>
<p>Most of the EA schools that will interest serious Stanford candidates are private. How many publics are in the Top 50 National or LAC lists and also offer EA? Very, very few.</p>
<p>I might be incorrect but Virginia, North Carolina, Michigan, and Georgia Tech have Early Action.</p>
<p>Also, Penn State and Illinois call it “Priority”, while Wisconsin calls it “First Fall Notification”, bu tit is basically the same thing.</p>
<p>There are also some schools call it priority or rolling that has an earlier deadline or accept early application like UIUC, Wisconsin, and Penn State. If you count the number of public schools in the Top 50 National, there is a major portion of them do accept early applications. There just aren’t that many public schools in the top 50 list to begin with. There are also many good schools right below top 50 that offer EA or rolling like Purdue, UMN-TC, etc. I don’t see why 50 should be a cut off.</p>
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<p>Because Stanford is Stanford, and kids who are serious candidates there are rarely interested in the Georgia Techs or Purdues of the world except as safeties. I don’t agree with them, but a Stanford reject that I know (ACT 36) thought CMU was slumming, is sniffing at his Illinois and Michigan acceptances, and refused to apply to Case Western even though it merely required him to press the Submit button. Anything lower is going to be really unattractive, though it shouldn’t be.</p>
<p>We all know no one just apply to reach schools. So people who apply to Stanford still needs to apply to matching schools. That is so simple.</p>