<p>@1Rachel94 Here are two websites that can help clarify the differences between EA and ED:
[Early</a> Decision & Early Action](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/guidance/applications/early]Early”>Early Decision and Early Action – Counselors | College Board)
[Early</a> Decision versus Action Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/earlydecision.asp]Early”>Early Action and Early Decision Admissions Explained)</p>
<p>Thank you everyone! </p>
<p>Duke is the only place that the acceptance rate has that big jump. I love Duke and Brown for their course freedom. I’m so undecided as to what I specifically want that Duke or Brown would be a great option; because I’d have a chance to explore. I love that there aren’t any course requirements. (Except for a writing course at Duke.)</p>
<p>Early Action and Early Desion(misplet)… I don’t get how people would ED to a school? It basically ruin all your other schools with it binding contract that you MUST go to their school. EA have more benefict as you get more time to decide if you have been accepted and have no consquences.</p>
<p>ED is for people who visit a school and absolutely fall in love with it. Normally it’s a high reach where if they were to be accepted they wouldn’t even think twice about attending.</p>
<p>I’ve only visited a few schools and there haven’t been any that I absolutely 100% loved, so I probably won’t be doing ED. But I’ll be doing EA wherever possible.</p>
<p>Descuff, both have their advantages. Early Action does allow more freedom, but Early Decision has benefits as well. For example, if most people thought along your line of reason, then fewer would apply ED. This way, the people who truly wanted to attend a specific college would have a higher chance of getting in because they face a smaller pool of competition. In addition, some people do have their hearts set on a college (i.e. they have no problem committing themselves to a specific college because they really love it that much). Thus, they can express their dedication and enjoy a higher chance of admittance into their dream school than through EA or RD.</p>
<p>But of course not every schools offer ED. So for my dream schools I don’t have to worry about ED anyway. But still I don’t understand how do people, uh, decide on ED.</p>
<p>You either have a single dream school or you don’t; if you do, applying ED usually increases your chances of admission at least somewhat. If you apply ED asking for financial aid you’ll get an offer you can accept or decline; if you decline you apply RD elsewhere.</p>
<p>I’m going to apply ED because I have a clear set #1 school, I get a legacy bonus for doing so, and I don’t have any financial troubles that would cause me to need to compare aid/scholarship packages.</p>
<p>Right now I’m debating ED to about three schools. I’ll be visiting this summer to decide if/where I want to. </p>
<p>Otherwise, I’ll probably do Stanford or Harvard SCEA cause I’m a legacy at both.</p>
<p>Guysssss my ib mocks are starting tomorrow!</p>
<p>God, I can’t believe that after 12 years we’re so close to being seniors. It’s crazyy.</p>
<p>I know! In less than a year, most of us will know where we’re going to college for the next 4 years ^.^</p>
<p>Probably will do SCEA at Harvard because I’m an idiotttt. </p>
<p>Needs to be summer. Losing my mind.</p>
<p>being juniors isn’t too bad either 
at least it’s 10x better than being a sophomore</p>
<p>@msteiny YES. Same exact feeling. </p>
<p>Idk, I think sophomore and junior are both good/bad in their own ways. I don’t really have an accurate view, because I moved the summer before my sophomore year so it sucked like a million times more than any other year of my life, but my friends seemed to enjoy sophomore more than junior. Junior year just has SO MUCH WORK. And so much pressure to perform everything perfectly, because the smallest of errors can have a pretty big consequence. On the other hand, there is a bit of a light at the end of the tunnel feeling that you don’t get with sophomore year.</p>
<p>I think I’ll apply EA to a few schools, but ED to none.
I don’t want to commit myself before seeing where else I can get into. financial packages, and things like that.</p>
<p>I’m going to do EA for every school that offers it and RD for everything else. If I happen to get in to basically any of my EA schools though I might not even bother applying RD.</p>
<p>I’m going to do EA for all of the schools I can, that way I have an easy, worry free (in that sense) senior year. And if I happen to change my mind/ not get into the school I want to I still have a lot of time to apply to other schools.</p>
<p>Not doing ED at all</p>
<p>I’m applying to MIT, BC and Georgetown early, along with some safeties… Hopefully I get into MIT, and I’m pretty much done. (=</p>
<p>I’m applying to UMass - Amherst, UT Austin, UCLA, UC Berkeley, USC, NYU, Tufts, Boston U, and Brandeis.</p>
<p>What do you guys’ schedules look like for next year? 
I tried my best to make mine look like I’m not slacking off, but not terribly hard either. :P</p>
<p>AP English Literature
AP Statistics
AP Biology
AP Japanese
Philosophy
Filmmaking</p>