Early action or regular action?

Applying to College
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<p>Does anyone have any input on whether I should apply regular decision or early action? I heard that in early action, you face a smaller but stronger applicant pool, but in regular decision you face a bigger but more average pool of applicants. Stanford has always been my first choice, but I don't know how I should apply...</p>

<p>here's my chance link;
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1668363-chance-for-stanford-upenn-and-other-ivies.html#latest"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1668363-chance-for-stanford-upenn-and-other-ivies.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Based on this, how do you think I should apply? Thanks!</p>

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<p>I would apply SCEA. It gives you an extremely slight advantage. But also, if you do get in, you are done with applying to colleges.</p>

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<p>bump</p>

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<p>If you do have room to improve your credential, you probably want to wait for RD. Stanford has very high rejection rate at EA. Once you got rejected, you would have no chance to improve your application.</p>