<p>How much does applying Early Action vs Single Choice Early Action matter at Tulane?</p>
<p>Is there a significant admissions bump between the two?</p>
<p>send a PM to rockvillemom and ask her…</p>
<p>Take a look at this thread, which includes various opinions including rockvillemom’s. Reading it again, I hold the same opinion now as I did then.</p>
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<p>fallenchemist: were those admission stats ever released that show SCEA v EA? just curious since the OP is bringing this up again…</p>
<p>Not that I am aware of, rodney. If I find them I will post them ASAP. I will be going down in August to help my D move in (no more help from the ROTC folks! Only for freshmen, lol), and I plan to have a couple of meetings while there with faculty and staff that have invited me to talk with them. I will try and find out. Although since SCEA was new, I rather suspect a lot of people just didn’t know it was even an option.</p>
<p>thanks, fallen =]</p>
<p>Fallen-Are you going to wear a name tag or other identifying marker to reveal yourself to your CC fans?</p>
<p>I’m thinking something along the lines of a feather boa or perhaps a ten gallon hat and cowboy boots! Maybe we could just post a place and time to meet and all show up!</p>
<p>There is one matter that needs clarification regarding SCEA. Given the quick turnaround in decisions at Tulane, one could apply and find out the result before the EA dealines pass at some other schools. So, if one has heard from Tulane does that mean one should still not apply EA elsewhere? And further, if one is rejected, can one still apply EA or ED elsewhere? My reading would suggest not. But, perhaps Tulane is more lenient than others.</p>
<p>^^therein lies the problem that was faced with SCEA last year; while some students were able to do that, others were kept hanging for months bypassing the other deadlines…</p>
<p>and I wouldn’t think that Tulane would “reject” anybody EA or SCEA but rather defer them to the later pool of applicants but I could be wrong on that one…can’t recall if anyone was actually rejected in that round last year that I had heard of.</p>
<p>People do get rejected rather than deferred when they apply EA and I would therefore assume also SCEA, just like people get rejected ED from some schools. Also, if Tulane were to reject an applicant, all obligations cease. It would make no sense to keep a student from moving forward in whatever way they want once Tulane has turned them down completely. Perhaps they did not spell this out in the terms and conditions, but how could they possibly stop a student from applying EA or ED to another school once the cycle is complete and with a negative result? It is just an omission on Tulane’s part of they didn’t make a statement to that effect, but it is a long standing legal principle regarding obligations between parties to a contract, which this is.</p>
<p>Now if one is accepted to Tulane, I would still argue that the SCEA contract has run its course and a student can apply EA or ED elsewhere if they choose, but this is a grayer area to me. But I cannot at that point in time see any harm to Tulane or any other reason for the student not to get the same decision they would inevitably get a few months later. I suppose one could argue that applying ED to another school would demonstrate more interest and therefore increase the odds of acceptance, but this seems so hypothetical in any given real-life case that I cannot see that argument carrying much weight.</p>
<p>I meant to add that although I feel that way if an SCEA applicant were accepted, I am reasonably sure that the intent by Tulane is that the student not apply EA or ED to other schools. The more I think about it, I don’t think it is a gray area. What I was really thinking is that I just don’t agree with the whole SCEA thing. I still don’t like it. But that aside, taking the facts as they stand, a student accepted by Tulane SCEA should not apply to another school EA or ED, if that is what the agreement is.</p>
<p>I tend to agree. If one applies SCEA and is accepted, that’s it until the RD round. If one is rejected, all obligations should cease. Makes perfect sence to me.</p>