<p>Hey guys, really simple question here. You CAN apply to two different schools, one on ED and one on EA, right?</p>
<p>And just checking you CANNOT apply to two different schools, one on ED and one on single choice EA (or restrictive EA... whatever you want to call it)?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for clarifying.</p>
<p>i’d also like to know! thanks.</p>
<p>yes under normal circumstances you can apply early decision to a school and then early action to a different school or even a couple of schools. However, some schools will restrict you from applying early action if you’re applying early decision to a different school. Others might request that you only apply to one school early action. Basically, just pay attention to what the school wants before you apply.</p>
<p>It really does depend on the school. I know one of the schools my friend applied to was EA, but he couldn’t apply anywhere else early. I applied to my college ED and could apply other places, but had to attend that school if I got in.</p>
<p>It should be really easy to find different schools’ policies online or call their admissions department and ask.</p>
<p>The first thing that Rathgra talked about was SCEA, like Yale does, which is Single Choice Early action. You can only apply to that school early action but you have no obligation or contract to go there.</p>
<p>As far as I know, and I’m sure someone will come and correct me, if you are applying ED that is the only place you can apply. Then again they talk about rescinding your other applications so they may expect that you have applied else where. I’m basing my response on Collegboard’s “Although you can apply to only one college for early decision, you may apply to other colleges through the regular admissions process.” [Early</a> Decision - Early Action - apply to colleges, search](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>Facts About Applying Early Decision or Early Action – BigFuture)</p>
<p>The last type of early action is the non restrictive one where you can apply to as many other EA’s as you’d like. Examples include MIT and Caltech.</p>
<p>Hope that helped.</p>
<p>I think only two colleges do single choice early action, Yale and Stanford. There’s this kid at my school who, perfectly legally and without breaking any rules, got into Chicago and George Mason Early Action, and Swarthmore Early Decision, and is headed off to Swarthmore next year.</p>
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<p>In general, this is false. Some schools, like Brown I believe, only allow you to apply there though.</p>
<p>OK, here are the rules:</p>
<p>Early Decision (ED): If you apply to a school with ED, you cannot apply to any other school with Early Decision. You can however apply to a school with early action (EA) expect if that school with early action has restrictions i.e. Yale and Stanford. If you get admitted to a ED school, you are bound to join the ED school (there are few exceptions for financial reasons, but if you are not sure you should not be applying ED anyway.) The obvious reason why you cannot apply to 2 ED schools is that if you get accepted by both, you are expected to attend both, which is not possible. </p>
<p>Some schools Like Carnegie Mellon, Harvey Mudd etc. have two Early Decisions ED I and ED II, with different deadlines. So you could apply to say Dartmouth which has ED (just one) and if you get rejected, you could be apply for ED II at CMU, as the deadline for ED II is after the results come from Dartmouth. Most schools with ED just have one deadline.</p>
<p>Early Action (EA) is non binding, you do not have to accept the offer. So you can apply to one ED school and several EA schools without a problem, unless the EA schools are Yale and Stanford. Yale has Single Choice Early Action and Stanford has Restricted Early Action. Some of the top non restrictive EA schools are Caltech, MIT and Chicago where you can apply to all three of them EA without a problem.</p>
<p>Yale and Stanford expect to you to apply to only them EA ( you cannot apply to any other school either ED or EA). </p>
<p>Here are the rules for Stanford’s REA. Yale’s should be similar.</p>
<p>* Facts About Stanford’s Restrictive Early Action Program</p>
<pre><code>* Stanford’s Restrictive Early Action program is a program for students who know, at the time of application, that Stanford is their first choice – and not a program that should be used as a strategy for admission. This is the design of a Restrictive Early Action program versus a more open Early Action admission program offered at other institutions.
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