<p>How will your child's highschool guidance counselor respond to doing two ED applications, with such close time frames? If things go south, the school and future grads could pay a price.</p>
<p>Mr. B, There is not a problem. If the ED1 school has not replied on time, the 2nd app can go off under RD. Then if ED1 is a "no," the student calls College #2 to swith the RD ap to an ED2 app. </p>
<p>This should be possible, as the first week or two of ED2 is spent shuffling through papers and making sure the apps are complete.</p>
<p>For some schools, like Rice, EDII isn't binding like ED is. In that case, go ahead and send it as you can always decline or pull your app if school #1 accepts you.</p>
<p>Truly, if a college states that they take either SAT or ACT, then they take either ACT or SAT and have no preference for one over the other, as far as I can tell. There are still schools who only accept the SAT, however, so you need to check each school.</p>
<p>My reading of Mini's posts rarely turns up errors, but, with some trepidation, I suggest you have missed the point of the Early Admissions Game. In their work, they controlled for the factors you mention. Among "unhooked" students, applying early significantly raised admissions prospects almost everywhere they looked, including the most selective schools. They even used admissions officers' ratings, not just GPA and SAT, and, again excluding hooked students, found an advantage to applying early. Not surprising. It is in the interest of the schools to lock in their prospects in early admissions. Being a little more forgiving raises the chances that the student who would be highly attractive to the school, but does not know this, will apply early anyway. Then the school gets to pick who they want.</p>
<p>Great point about full pay students. Several of the most selective schools, with the most generous financial aid, have extremely low enrollments of Pell grant recipients. Princeton and Harvard are two examples. But it is not only direct favoring of full pay students. Recall that academic performance, SAT, and GPA are highly correlated with family income. Since academic performance is a huge factor in admisisons at these schools, they actually have to relax some traditional standards to enroll as many lower income students as they do. If HYP drove their admissions purely on GPA and SAT, the classes would be even more upper crust than they are now.</p>
<p>Aside from georgetown, which schools allow multiple EA?</p>
<p>of the schools that accept EA, many will allow multiple EA apps, as does G-town. G-town will not allow EA to them, and ED to somewhere else however. Yale and Stanford are EA Single Choice schools, which do not allow early apps anywhere else except under rare circumstances as is explained on their wesbites.</p>