ED and EA at the same time?

Applying to College
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<p>Hey Everyone,</p>

<p>I'm a rising senior and I am beginning to narrow down my college search, and I'm thinking of a plan of how I should be applying. Right now, I know that I will be applying ED to either Williams College or Brown University this fall, and I want to know if I will be able to apply to other, non-binding Early Action schools (UChicago, UNC Chapel Hill, Uva, MIT, Caltech, etc) alongside the ED application. I feel as though it would be a nice safety cushion come December. </p>

<p>The links to Brown's and Williams' Pages:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.brown.edu/admission/undergraduate/apply-brown/first-year-applicants"&gt;http://www.brown.edu/admission/undergraduate/apply-brown/first-year-applicants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://admission.williams.edu/apply/"&gt;http://admission.williams.edu/apply/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Thanks guys!!</p>

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<p>If a college has a Restrictive EA policy (Stanford for example) then you can’t concurrently apply EA or ED to some other private college</p>

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<p>But you can apply to schools where there is not a restrictive EA policy and also apply to one ED school. If you get into the ED school you are obligated to go there.</p>

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<p>^ Unless the FA offered still makes the school unaffordable.</p>

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<p>thanks guys!</p>

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Be aware that UNC’s EA decisions are released in late January. </p>

<p>Almost all EA colleges except Georgetown and BC (which would otherwise lose a lot of early admits to the Ivies) allow one to apply ED elsewhere. </p>

<p>Since you’re willing to go small, lots of great LACs offer EA - Lewis & Clark, Beloit, Earlham, Kalamazoo, Rhodes, Colorado College, etc. Of the universities with EA, you may want to take a look at U Miami and Tulane; the latter is pretty generous with merit money. </p>