<p>My friend told me that Yale will allow students to apply to other private universities and still apply early to them IF that other university requires early applications for scholarship opportunities. Has anyone heard if Harvard does the same?</p>
<p>See: <a href=“Frequently Asked Questions | Harvard”>https://college.harvard.edu/frequently-asked-questions</a></p>
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<p>@TwoTravelin - If Yale allows that, it’s inconsistent with the rules stated on their website:</p>
<p><a href=“Single-Choice Early Action | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions”>Single-Choice Early Action | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions;
<p>Thanks all you are correct. It is Stanford that allows it…</p>
<p>The student may apply to any college/university with early deadlines for scholarships or special academic programs as long as the decision is non-binding.</p>
<p>Looks like maybe only Stanford allows for private early others when applying for scholarships. </p>
<p>There’s a lesson to be learned about language precision here.</p>
<p>From the OP’s friend:
From the Yale FAQs:
From Stanford:
The open question is whether the "college/universities with early deadlines for scholarships . . . " are private universities that have an “early admission program” that is not a “nonbinding rolling admission program”? </p>
<p>I don’t know. Does anyone else here know? Does anyone have some examples? I have never stumbled across a private university that required an EA application for access to a particular scholarship or program. I think Yale used to have language similar to Stanford’s, and if they removed it maybe it was because it made a difference, but maybe it was also because it didn’t actually make any difference and tended to confuse people. (As it does, obviously.)</p>
<p>Anyway, to the OP: If there is some program you want to apply to, and you also want to apply SCEA to Harvard or wherever, look carefully to decide whether the other college is making you participate in an “early admission program.” In at least some cases, you may conclude that it isn’t.</p>
<p>There are some (many?) schools that require early application for special consideration for honors programs or scholarships, however, you don’t actually have to submit EA, just by the deadline. George Mason and University of Richmond both have this policy, I’m sure there are others. Perhaps this is what you are referring to? Programs can have an early deadline, but still be regular decision.</p>
<p>@JHS I have never come across that policy either, just the above.</p>
<p>Good points, thanks!</p>
<p>Thanks, guineagirl96. I looked at the Richmond program, and there’s absolutely no conflict with Harvard or Yale SCEA. If you want to be considered for a Richmond Scholars scholarship, you have to apply by December 1, but you don’t necessarily get a decision any earlier than anyone else* (unless you have specifically applied ED I), and it’s perfectly clear that this is nonbinding and part of their Regular Decision admissions process. That’s the kind of program I have seen before, and it doesn’t conflict with any SCEA policy of which I am aware.</p>
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<li>(Thinking about it, I bet you probably do get notice of your decision before April 1, and maybe even before the end of December. Everyone who applies ED I is eligible for it, and I imagine they probably want to inform ED I accepted students of the decision before the students have to accept or reject the ED admission on financial grounds. So they probably make the decisions relatively quickly, and once they have made them there’s no incentive not to use it to get the chosen students to enroll. But they don’t promise to give an early decision, so it’s clearly not an “early admission program.”)</li>
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<p>Does anyone know of a program that might be OK under the Stanford policy but not under Harvard’s or Yale’s? As long as we have the internet available, let’s crowdsource a meaningful answer to the OP’s question.</p>
<p>@JHS You don’t find out if you are accepted for Richmond until early March under Richmond Scholars (I am a scholar) unless you apply ED 1 and even then, you don’t know about the scholarship. They send out waves of semifinals notifications (approx 400 people) throughout december and january. You are not notified if you don’t make the semifinals (last year, 6k applied by the deadline- way too many people to notify). If you make the finals (approx 100 people), which results come out mid feb, you are told you are also accepted to the school and get a presidential scholarship if you don’t get the scholarship. If you do not make the finals, you don’t find out until regular decision comes out. Actual scholars aren’t announced until late late march (i believe i was notified around March 24). So it is not a quick decision- there are multiple rounds, including an interview/audition, and it takes about 4 months.</p>