<p>So my deadline for early action for multiple colleges is in around a week but I've been informed that apparently some will reject you early but defer you to admissions for regular while other colleges will completely reject you, i need to know how i can tell whether a college defers you or entirely rejects you or if this is just some bull that's being spread around</p>
<p>No, that’s right. The school can exercise one of three options:</p>
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<li><p>Admit you (yeah!)</p></li>
<li><p>Defer your application to the regular decision round. You application will be considered along with all the other RD applicants.</p></li>
<li><p>Reject you. A rejection in the ED round is a pretty clear indicator that you would have been rejected in the RD round anyway. The exception would be if between the ED and RD deadlines your application improved substantially- you retook the SAT and scored better, your GPA went up, etc. If you think this is likely it may be a reason to hold off and apply RD.</p></li>
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<p>Yes, some colleges will accept you, some will defer your application and some will reject it.</p>
<p>It’s called the college application process.</p>
<p>OK well that’s solved now but this means there’s no harm in applying early at all if what i submit will be the same as what i submit in regular then right?
and it also means that all colleges either defer or completely reject or accept you, but do some colleges prefer to just reject instead of defer in the early application process and if yes can u name a few please?</p>
<p>You need to read what EACH college on your list does for EA. Some don’t reject ANY students at all, so if you are not accepted early, it’ s possible to communicate through GC and address some issues in your app, and keep in touch with admissions right through the RD process. </p>
<p>It doesn’t matter which schools will reject in EA, so much as checking if any are your colleges, so you should read each one’s policies, as they can and often do year to year. I am more careful now about making any generalities as things have so changed in the process.</p>
<p>For example, Notre Dame comes right out and says ONLY apply EA if you are a very strong candidate. Top 1% of class! etc. Otherwise you are better off in RD pool. This is because ND gets its best applicants early. For other schools, the EA acceptance % is a little higher AND if you are deferred, your application gets another look in the RD round. Bottom line is to ask your AdCom at each school.</p>
<p>ok well im apllying to:
ohio state university, columbus
umass amherst
boston university
northeastern university
university of miami
im apllying early action to all and id like to know whether i should or not</p>
<p>Have you checked their admission web sites?</p>
<p>BU is ED, not EA. BC is EA. Two different schools.</p>
<p>oh yeah that’s right, thanks @MrMom62
and if anyone knows please tell me,
ill be checking their admission websites as well @Erin’s Dad
but if anyone knows you’ll be saving me a lot of time and trouble</p>
<p>It seems unusual to me that there are so many colleges on your preferred list that offer EA and to which you are planning to apply EA. I suppose that there is no harm if they don’t restrict you from applying to other EA colleges but it still seems that you have not really thought deeply about where you want to go, and that your application will show that.</p>
<p>Better, I think, is for you to identify the one (or possibly two) colleges that are on top of your preferred list and apply EA to it/them (assuming that their EA rules allow that). Customize your application to clearly indicate your preference for this/these college(s). If you do that with finesse and some level of passion it will improve your chances compared to RD.</p>
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<p>I hate to sound like a parent but … it’s not our job to do your legwork for you.</p>
<p>Now would be a good time to own the process and start getting used to showing some initiative, perseverance and self determination</p>
<p>We don’t know as things change from year to year. Also rules for early programs change as well as for scholarships and things. I just looked at the website of a school I know well, and a new scholarship with new instructions has been added this year. Albright is now guaranteeinf to meet need as defined by EFC on Tuition, fees, room, board for this year. Wash &Lee is offering free tuition for famiiles earning less than $75K this year. All of these are new developements. You have to check each one anyways because of these changes.</p>
<p>Of course this can vary from school to school & from year to year but my experience is that typically those admitted under EA programs are clear admits for the school. Since the applicant is not committing to go to the school, there is no incentive to accept a candidate that is on the margin. Those rejected in the EA process are clear rejects. People who fall in between are often deferred. From what I see, a greater % of deferrals happen with EA schools as compared to ED schools. You can do some research about each school you are applying to if you choose. From what I can tell applying EA can only hurt you if you expect to retake and improve your standardized tests before later deadline or if your GPA will show a significant improvement and you want to present grades for your first full semester of senior year.</p>
<p>ok thanks and i liked the comments on me not doing my work, its just a little thing called reassurance people, ive checked and made sure of all the places im gna be applying ea now, thnx for the help everyone, and reassure u did@happy1</p>
<p>Good luck…and for further reassurance, my S applied EA to his top choice, was deferred, and then got in RD (and went on to attend that school and have a fantastic experience).</p>
<p>Wissam25: Actually, GolfFather is completely correct. And I hope your rather snippy attitude doesn’t come across in your applications. It’s called “being respectful and taking advice.” You would do well to figure that out – it’s part of growing up.</p>