Early Decision and Rolling Decisions

Applying to College
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<p>Have several questions about ED. Son has two schools he really likes and other matches that he also likes. Some have ED, some have rolling admissions, and one school has a very late ED 2 deadline.</p>

<p>If you apply to schools with rolling decisions and find out you are in say by December 1, can you still apply ED to your first choice school (as long as it's before the ED deadline)?</p>

<p>If you apply to an ED school and get either deferred or rejected can you apply to another school that has an ED2 with a later deadline? </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

2

<p>If there’s no specific restrictions given by each college that prevents you from doing so, I don’t see why not.</p>

3

<p>TKsmon: Yes, yes.</p>

4

<p>and is all of that possible with the common app? </p>

<p>So getting rejected or deferred with the first ED application sort of nullifies the ED? Since you are rejected or deferred you are treated like an RD applicant and are therefore considered to have not used ED?</p>

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<p>Yes, and likely without the common app as well.</p>

<p>Yes, as well as when you decline the ED offer when the FA is not enough.</p>

<p>Yes; you start fresh as if ED never happened.</p>

<p>A school that rejects you ED generally won’t let you re-apply RD; deferrals are usually automatically submitted to the school’s RD pool.</p>

<p>In any case, contact each school for their specific policies.</p>

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<p>You need to look at distinction between early decision (which is binding) and early action (which is not).Colleges with ED allow you to apply early action or rolling admission to any other college, You just cannot apply ED to another. If admitted, you then are required to withdraw any other applications whether you have received notice of admission or not. </p>

<p>Once an ED college rejects you or defers you to regular admission, you are free to apply to ED2 at another.</p>

<p>It is EA schools you need to check when applying early for rules about appplying elswhere. Most of those allow you to apply both ED and EA elsewhere (and rolling) but some prohibit you from applying ED elsewhere and four, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford, have single choice early action which prohibit you from applyinmg ED or EA elsewhere (although they allow exceptions such as applying EA to your own state universities and may or may not allow to apply to rolling universities).</p>