<p>Should you only apply early action when you have the good enough grades to get into the college? Or do you apply early action just to receive early action? Also is there a difference between applying early and early action???</p>
<p>Early action is not binding, meaning that you can apply to what ever colleges have that option and basically they give you an early notification so you don’t have to worry about it all senior year where you are getting in. Usually the notifications are given in early December but the applications are due November 1. The only exception with Early action is with the elite ivy leagues, like Harvard for example, even though they don’t do early decision they participate in early action and if you chose Harvard’s early action you can’t do it any where else, but you are not forced to go there like early decision</p>
<p>Early decision is binding, which means if you get accepted you have to go there and remove any application you were submitting from any other college. You must accept their financial aid package and there is no other way of trying to apply to another university. Usually to do this you really would have to LOVE the college. </p>
<p>In conclusion, if you really feel strongly about a college do early decision, if your financial aid is a problem do early action. However, you mentioned about the grades. To be honest, it would be better if you did really well first semester in senior year and let them see those grades also. I personally feel my application isn’t strong enough for either option, even though I really would love to know where I am going in December. Keep in mind that the applicant pool may have a higher yield rate for both EA and ED, but the applicants are applying have really strong applications, studies have shown that kids who didn’t have the BEST scores that did apply ED or EA had a slight slight better chance, but it’s not that much. The only thing in favor of it is that you are showing you are really interested in their college, and you can show your interest in a plethora of other ways besides doing EA or ED.</p>
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False. From the Common Application ED agreement:
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<p><a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf</a></p>
<p>So if the school’s FA offer is not enough to support attendance, you say thanks but no thanks, and apply elsewhere RD. But do apply ED only at your by-far number one choice, your dream school, where your only question is: Can I afford it? Otherwise apply EA or RD so you can compare FA packages.</p>
<p>Really? I think I may do NYU Ed 2 then, i always thought that you had to go to that college for Ed</p>
<p>If a school somehow could force you to attend, what would it do when you couldn’t pay the bill? Expel you? There’s a reason we never hear of this happening. </p>
<p>NYU is generous with its aid calculation (FAFSA only), but they generally don’t meet full need, so don’t expect to get the FAFSA-calculated aid. :(</p>
<p>That’s the problem with nyu, I heard they kind of have the worst financial aid packages but they are getting better. That’s one reason why I didn’t want to do ed there because I know they are going to give me a gap even though my EFC is 0.</p>
<p>Sorry if this is a stupid question-
but what stops you from applying early restrictive to one school (let’s say for kicks and giggles Harvard) and applying somewhere that is just early action (let’s say UChicago)?
Several people have told me I should apply this way (not to Harvard…) and quite frankly I’m scared to do such a thing.<br>
Do people actually do this? What are the repercussions of doing this (if any?) and what regulatory process is there that prevents this?</p>
<p>And I don’t want to be writing this to make it sound like I am willing to get around the system or cheat people out of spots. I just genuinely want to know how such a thing occurs/doesn’t occur.</p>
<p>Your GC provides your transcript to all the schools. It’s in your GC’s interest to not get caught doing something inappropriate because it could affect students coming from that school later. And you would have to review the ED specifics for each school. Some allow a student to apply EA but not ED, or rolling admit but not EA.</p>