<p>Hey everyone!
I have decided to apply early to Harvard, I am a junior right now. Do you guys think that applying to Harvard or any ivy league as ED helps? Many people told me that applying early improves your chances of getting in. Also, Harvard's Crimson website suggest that applying early is how most of the students get accepted. What do you guys think? :)</p>
<p>First of all, Harvard doesn’t offer an ED program. Binding programs are generally limited to very good schools, but ones that still feel that an incentive offers them a chance to better recruit top talent (UPenn, Duke, etc.).</p>
<p>As for Harvard, whether SCEA actually provides you with a benefit in admissions is up for debate. If you wanted a more accurate conclusion, I suppose you could wait for a few days until we have the results from this round, and see what the general trend is. Harvard states that higher SCEA acceptance rates are due to the strength of the applicant pool (which seems logical), but that doesn’t truly explain why the acceptance rate for SCEA continues to climb past the point of other Ivies, despite the college receiving more and more applicants in the SCEA round.</p>
<p>In any case, don’t you think it’s a tiny bit early to focus on which round you will be applying to each school in? This seems like a better item to think about during the summer, after you’ve possibly finished a Common App essay, or so.</p>
<p>@tiberium yes it is kind of early for me to decide all this but I am just so nervous about all this! I can’t stop thinking about which collages, financial aid etc. So is SCEA just an ivy league collage program? I may have misread the Crimson website, they must have meant SCEA. Also, does the SCEA follow the same trend as ED/EA in a regular collage? This is something very new to me. I am definitely going to research. Thanks for your help :)</p>
<p>@Harvardreamss It will improve your chances slightly. But even if you apply early, you are still more likely to get deferred or rejected than accepted. </p>
<p>SCEA is practically unique to Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Princeton. It’s only for the schools that generally draw in a rather large portion of the most qualified applicants in any round, and therefore can ask their applicants to only apply to one school.</p>
<p>SCEA is different than EA/ED. It is not binding, as ED is, so the advantage given (if any, again, it’s still up for debate) is less than what you would find in an ED program.</p>
<p>EA offers no admissions advantage, as it isn’t restrictive in any sense. It just allows you to find out whether or not you got into the school earlier than everyone else.</p>
<p>It’s “college” not “collage”.</p>
<p>@Tiberium thanks so much! Good luck on your results 
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<p>@Falcon1 My bad, didn’t read the post again </p>
<p>Just trying to make sure you knew since you misspelled it three times in one post. Good luck!</p>
<p>@Falcon1 thanks </p>