I know that for ED you have to withdraw all other applications, so you can only apply to one school ED.
How many schools can you apply EA to? Is it unlimited, because I’m a junior and I want to end the college search as early as possible and want to know if I can just apply to a whole bunch of places EA and get it over with.
<p>To my knowledge, there is nothing stopping you from applying to several EA schools and "getting it over with". One friend of my son applied to, and was accepted at, three top schools EA and is visiting them now to decide between them. Just be sure none are "SCEA" (Single Choice Early Action) because that carries some (all?) of the connotations of ED. Check the policies of the schools you want to apply to. And check to be sure the schools you're interested in <em>OFFER</em> EA in the first place: many schools do not.</p>
<p>Can anybody tell me which schools offer EA? Some that I am looking at are.. </p>
<p>Georgetown, Stanford, Harvard what else?</p>
<p>A few schools -- Harvard, Yale, Stanford -- have adopted single choice EA, meaning if you apply EA to one of those you cannot apply EA or Early Decision to any others, but you are not prohibited from applying regular admission. Most others that have EA either allow you to apply EA elsewhere or have no restrictions and you can also apply ED elsewhere. Being accepted EA does not require you to attend or withdraw other applications and you usually do not have to choose until the usual May 1 date for accepting admission at most colleges. For any particular school's policy be sure to check its rules on its website. There are a large number that offer EA. A couple of others at the high ranking end (besides the three above) are Georgetown and UChicago.</p>
<p>Harvard is not plain EA, pentasa, it is SCEA, which means that you cannot apply anywhere else EA.
Look at Boston College, U.Chicago, Georgetown, Case Western</p>
<p>MIT, Caltech, Tulane, Santa Clara, Goucher, Villanova, Notre Dame...</p>
<p>Visit this site and stroll through the states to see a table of schools, what their application deadlines are if they offer ED or EA, and how many applied early and were accepted a couple years ago (looks like 2003 data).</p>
<p>That chart gives help in possibly identifying schools with programs but I would not rely on any of its figures. They apparently haven't bothered to update that page and area for a while because it says on the lead page near the bottom that the early decision figures given are from the year "2000."</p>