If you apply early decision to a school...

Applying to College
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<p>Are you still allowed to apply to other colleges through REGULAR decision?
I've been told by someone that if you do early decision, it just restricts you from applying to other schools through early action or early decision, but not regular admission. Is this true? Also, does this help admission chances?</p>

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<p>You can still apply to other schools RD – but if you get accepted at the ED school, you have to drop all of your other apps.</p>

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<p>All of the regular decision apps too?</p>

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<p>Correct. Early decision is binding, so if you get into an ED school, you must go there and withdraw all other applications.</p>

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<p>“You can still apply to other schools RD – but if you get accepted at the ED school, you have to drop all of your other apps.” -IF THEY OFFER YOU A FINANCIAL AID PACKAGE YOUR FAMILY CAN AFFORD.</p>

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<p>Well then whats the point of early decision if you can just do early action at the same school? Does early decision increase your chances more than early action does?</p>

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<p>ED can often improve your chances of admission, but is BINDING. You are committed and must withdraw all other apps. EA is NOT binding…you just know your admission decision sooner than you would with RD.</p>

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<p>Plus, schools usually allow only ED or EA (our none at all). You can’t choose, for the most part.</p>

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<p>Early Decision will improve your chances more than Early Action. With ED the adcom knows their school is your top choice. With EA you could still choose other schools over their school.</p>

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<p>Yes you can only apply to one binning ED, but you can apply to RD as many as you won’t however if you get into ED you have to withdraw all your other apps</p>

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<p>It is possible to apply to one school ED, and to other schools EA. You’ll need to check the policies of each school. Usually, ED schools are fine with you applying elsewhere EA, but some EA schools will not allow you to apply ED elsewhere if you want to apply to their school EA.</p>

<p>Sorry if that sounds really confusing–this EA/ED/SCEA/REA stuff can be tricky.</p>

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<p>Thanks guys. So basically they both improve your chances but ED more so?
By how much?
Because I was looking at the uMiami, and their acceptance rate is 44%, how much would that increase w/ED or EA?</p>

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<p>At our high school. all early decision applications must have a signed letter of understanding between the student, the parents and the guidance counselor indicating that they understand the early decision application guidelines and process and that it is binding commitment.</p>

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<p>Tahoe: UMiami is a unique exception; ED usually does not give a boost over EA (although after this many years hanging out here, I have absolutely no idea why)</p>

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<p>Really? How do you know that?</p>

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<p>^^common data set</p>

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<p>Where did you find this data?</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www6.miami.edu/planning-research/CDS1011.pdf[/url]”>http://www6.miami.edu/planning-research/CDS1011.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>For any school, you can just google the name of the school and common data set; if it is published, you will find it!</p>

<p>For UMiami, this shows that ED admission rate was under 20% for CDS 2010-2011 ( which is ridiculous and makes NO sense)</p>

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<p>Hmm that’s confusing. Haha but thanks again.</p>