<p>Well since colleges (according to my knowledge) don't exchange the name of accepted student in ED or SCEA, my counsin told me I could apply to multiple schools all EA ED SCEA and regular to increase the chance of admittance. Is it possible?</p>
<p>Your cousin is absolutely wrong. College absolutely exchange names of people who applied early decision or otherwise binding. The exchange happens late in the game (often the summer before you matriculate), but it definitely happens. If a college finds out that you broke its binding agreement, then not only will it destroy your application at that school, but it may jeopardize your applications at other schools. If anyone (a fellow student, a parent, a teacher, whatever) reports you to a college whose binding agreement you broke, then the same will happen. Often, the teachers/guidance counselors writing your recommendations will also not write your recommendations if they have multiple ED/SCEA deadlines because they have some scruples.</p>
<p>The real kicker is that if the school you apply to/are accepted at finds out that you broke its ED/SCEA agreement at ANY time between the day you are accepted to the school and the end of time, then the school has every right to revoke your acceptance and/or your degree. Do NOT, under any circumstances, apply to more than one school that has a binding application.</p>
<p>I asked him why he thinks like that; he told me he read in a book called “What colleges don’t tell you” and got the scoop…</p>
<p>^ I have that book. It doesn’t say you can apply ED/SCEA to multiple schools – just the opposite, in fact. It advises you to consider the consequences of ED very carefully, and not apply ED to a college if you’re not committed to attending if admitted.</p>
<p>Now, ED and EA/RD together – no conflict, but you must promptly withdraw your EA/RD applications (and not submit any more) if the ED school admits you. The only accepted way out of an ED admission is if you applied for financial aid and, on receiving their offer, discovered that you can’t afford to attend (not that you got a better offer elsewhere, but that you truly cannot afford to attend). If the ED school defers you to Regular Decision, then you’re no longer bound by the ED contract.</p>
<p>Some schools have an ED II round. If you were rejected or deferred from your ED choice, you can apply ED II to one school. Same ED rules apply to that school.</p>
<p>SCEA is a little different. If you apply somewhere SCEA, you can’t apply early (ED or EA) anywhere else – but you can apply RD all you want, and if the SCEA school admits you, it’s not binding.</p>
<p>Colleges do take this seriously, and they do share information. Welshing on an ED or SCEA agreement is risky business that can leave you with no options aside from your public state U.</p>
<p>You’re also unlikely to get cooperation from your high school GC in breaking an ED or SCEA agreement, since it reflects badly on your school. Many will not send final transcripts elsewhere.</p>
<p>Follow your cousin’s advice at your own (considerable) risk.</p>
<p>geek_mom’s last point about your HS not assisting you: this is another barrier for the ethically-diminished. If your guidance counselor were stupid enough to assist you further this deception, the school would be black-balled by the college. It has and does happen. </p>
<p>If there were no consequences, why doesn’t everyone “jump the turnstyle” here?</p>
<p>There’s no way any GC with half a brain would assist you deceive the colleges.</p>
<p>OKay he showed me the book. And here is how it reads:</p>
<p>Parental Paranoia: Would colleges find out if my kid applied to 2 colleges early?
“Applying to more than one college Early Decision is considered dishonest, but the secret is that colleges generally do not know if you do it.
…you are now ready to ask how colleges will find out if your kid applies to more than one Early Decision or SCEA college. An Admission representative at Columbia claimed that colleges communicate with one another after decisions go out… But an admissions director at Dartmouth said no such communication takes place- and she said, to her knowledge, now colleges exchange lists of accepted students.”</p>
<p>afraid: just go and do whatever your heart pleases</p>
<p>Just don’t cry when your GC looks at you like an idiot.</p>
<p>^^^And don’t forget that your GC writes a LOR. I wonder how your dishonesty will affect what they say about you??</p>
<p>^ doesn’t the guidance counselor also sign the ed agreement?</p>
<p>What if you apply to more than one college early decision and you are accepted to both?</p>
<p>Well, I’m just asking. And how do you respond to the book?</p>
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<p>By the author’s own admission there are two conflicting accounts of whether colleges communicate this information to one another. He even injects his own bias into his description, his source at Columbia “claims” the schools exchange lists but the source at Dartmouth “says” that they don’t. But who can blame him skewing things, he is in the business of selling his book.</p>
<p>Even taking your own source you don’t have anything to go on for the way you want to scam the system. Go ahead, I think you’ll get caught.</p>
<p>Weigh the risks and benefits and you’ll find its a bad decision. For the tiny increase in chance of acceptance at a few colleges, you might get blacklisted, rescinded and/or have your degree revoked. Worth it?</p>
<p>Once your ethics are put into question, there’s no limit if and when those questions will stop.</p>
<p>As long as some people may question your motives and honesty regarding ED, they’ll question it in other areas as well. Did you write that essay yourself? Were you really the senior editor of the yearbook? Did you actually volunteer at the soup kitchen on Sundays?</p>
<p>There’s no such thing as “sort of being honest”. If you feel the need to apply to two schools ED, knock yourself out. You’ve been given good advice on this thread and another one, and it’s time for you to make your own decision.</p>