I don’t really get the concept of early decision. Can someone explain it to me? Does it cost extra money to apply ED? Are there any commitments you are making to colleges when you apply ED? Can you apply ED to more than one college?
<p>You can only do ED to one college, and there are commitments.. it is BINDING-- anotherwords.. people do ED if that school is their first choice, and if you get in, you cannot decide that you do not want to go there anymore. ED increases chances to get into that specific college, and you get the answer around dec. 15th so you won't have to wait and freak out, like everyone does when you do RD.</p>
<p>Some schools fill nearly 50% of their class during ED. Many schools give you the financial aid offer at the same time as the acceptance. You may also get a letter of deferral.....rolling you into the regular decision pool. It could also have that outcome.</p>
<p>what about EA. Is there a limit to the number of places you can apply EA?</p>
<p>Single Choice Early Action is limiting but Early Action is not.</p>
<p>Don't apply ED if you also plan to apply for financial aid since it limits your ability to compare FA packages.</p>
<p>wait..is there a limit to the number of places you can apply EA?</p>
<p>If it's regular EA, you can apply to as many as you like. But some schools, like Havard, Yale, and Stanford (??) are single-choice EA, so you would only be able to apply to that one school during the EA period.</p>
<p>what is SEAS?</p>
<p>SCEA + Sincle Choice Early Action</p>
<p>SEAS could be School of Engineering arts & Sciences what school is this acronym associated with?</p>
<p>Columbia ?</p>
<p>Thanks, Z,</p>
<p>Columbia was my original guess also. I was ondering if other schools use the SEAS acronym (ya never know what goes on here in the land of CC :) )</p>
<p>I think other schools use it too...
Upenn and UVa come up when I do a google search.</p>