<p>Is it possible to do apply to a school under early decision contract and apply to a school that has a rolling admissions policy or does this defy the contract?</p>
<p>No, basically you're not allowed to apply to any other early decision school.</p>
<p>oh ok. are you allowed to apply early decision and early action. or just early decision?</p>
<p>ED requires you to withdraw apps from other schools if you are accepted. That's why you can't apply to multiple ED schools. However if you apply to a rolling admissions school and are given an offer, you're not bound to accept so I see no conflict with applying to an ED school too.</p>
<p>Example: you apply ED to UPenn and RD (but very early) to UMICH rolling admissions program. Both give you offers in December. You're bound to go to UPenn and you need to decline UM. It would be very bad to accept UM and decline UPenn. Maybe not for you, but you'd really hurt your HS.</p>
<p>alright thank you!!!! =)</p>
<p>No ED college prohibits you from applying to a rolling admissions college early and you can do so -- they all consider rolling admissions to be a form of regular admissions for which you can apply, not ED or early action. Moreover, as far as I am aware, every college that has ED allows you to apply early action elsewhere (but not ED elsewhere). Only impact is that, if you are accepted ED, you will need to withdraw your application from the rolling admissions college, or decline any admission if you already have an acceptance to one of those before receiving ED decision.</p>
<p>I think that Brown does not allow you to apply ED to Brown and EA somewhere else. In addition, if you ask Brown, I believe that they would say that in their view, the Michigan Early Response program is similar to an EA program.</p>
<p>Many schools with restrictions still permit applications to public institutions - for example, Stanford's SCEA specifically allows EA/rolling applications to public institutions.</p>
<p>At least two schools (Boston College and Georgetown) have only EA, but do not allow a student to apply there EA if that students has applied ED anywhere. </p>
<p>General answers are interesting, but tend to be of less help than previously, in these days of weird permutations and combinations of restrictions. Read the web sites of the schools to which you want to apply very carefully be deciding whether to go EA, REA, ED, rolling, RD or some combination or permutation of them.</p>
<p>Alright thank you guys for the clarification. =)</p>
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In addition, if you ask Brown, I believe that they would say that in their view, the Michigan Early Response program is similar to an EA program.
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I believe that this is wrong. Michigan, along with other public schools like Maryland, offer their applicants a deal where if you submit your application by X day you will get a decision by Y day. It is not EA. At EA schools like BC if you get your application in on September 1 but do not check the EA box you are in the RD pool. If you get your application to Michigan in on September 1 whether you like it or not you're in their early response pool. Brown telling you "you cannot apply ED here and to Michigan's early response program," is like saying "you have to delay your submission of your completed application to this other school." Brown would never say that.</p>
<p>Actually, the reason I know the Brown position is because I specifically asked a Brown admissions officer about this point and he told me that it would violate the Brown policy to apply to Brown ED and Michigan under the Early Response program. However, I agree with you that it doesn't make a lot of sense and it is possible that a different Brown representative would take a different position.</p>