<p>Kind of confused what this is...</p>
<p>Why doesn't everyone apply to all there colleges on their list early?</p>
<p>Are you ony allowed to apply for one early action?</p>
<p>Stanford has Single-Choice Early Action (SCEA), meaning that if you apply to Stanford EA, you can't apply EA or ED anywhere else. I believe Yale is the only other school that also practices SCEA.</p>
<p>Some schools also only offer ED (Early Decision) and not EA. ED is a binding contract, meaning that you if you're accepted, you have to matriculate to that school. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, only some schools I'm interested in have EA programs (UChicago and USan Diego). If the other schools on my list had EA programs I would probably make use of them, but the rest of them are either ED or RD only.</p>
<p>Yes, the primary reason that I'm not going to apply EA everywhere is that only certain schools offer EA.</p>
<p>On this line though, unless you're really set on a school with SCEA or something, I'd totally suggest applying to everywhere EA that you can. I applied to MIT and Caltech EA, and getting in helped me reduce my college list from 9 to 4, and made Christmas vacation and the rest of senior year a lot less stressful.</p>