<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>I was just wondering about applying somewhere both ED and EA. For someone who was accepted to, say, Penn ED but also applied to UChic EA, do they have to withdraw their application to UChic? And when they withdraw their application, do the adcoms at UChic have to reconsider the kids they've accepted, deferred, and rejected? </p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>Well, if you get into Penn, you’re going there, since you signed the ED agreement (unless financial aid is completely unacceptable). Furthermore, UChicago’s Early Action is non-binding, so there isn’t any conflict there.</p>
<p>So you would have to withdraw the application to University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>But if UChic accepted someone who was also accepted by Penn (which they have to commit to), do they replace that spot with someone else who UChic deferred?</p>
<p>People turn down EA accepts all the time (like your hypothetical UChgo applicant). Let’s say the UChgo/PENN applicant withdraws her UChgo application early enough, before decisions are announced, but had already been put on the “accept” list, it’s possible that UChgo might give an extra EA spot to another — but who’s to know? You’re guessing at a very unusual scenario – only to hope another UChgo slot opens up? For one slot Chgo doesn’t care that much – they can make it up in the spring.</p>
<p>ED is binding, and if someone applies ED they’re really not supposed to apply anywhere else EA. Of course, there’s no way for either school to really enforce this, as far as I’m aware, but it would be pretty unethical of the high school to allow this.</p>
<p>If UChicago accepted someone EA who didn’t go, for any reason, they would just fill that spot in the spring. It might be with a deferred applicant, it might be with a new applicant. Either way, someone is going to Chicago who wouldn’t have if the EA applicant had accepted their place.</p>
<p>^ Is that true, that if you apply somewhere ED, you’re not supposed to apply anywhere else EA? I didn’t think that was the case. My son applied ED to a college that is difficult to get into, and he also submitted several EA applications to other colleges. In no way whatsoever do I consider our public high school to be unethical, and his counselor didn’t have a problem with it.</p>
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This is incorrect. </p>
<p>In general student applying ED can only apply to one ED school but can apply to any EA or RD programs they want … they just need to pull those applications when then are accepted ED (and are OK with the financial aid). I believe there may be some school’s ED programs that restrict some non-ED applications but those are by far exceptions.</p>
<p>In general students applying EA can apply ED (to one school), to other EA schools, and to RD schools. Many schools with EA programs have limitations on where you can apply … with SCEA being fairly common among top schools were the applicant can only apply to one early admissions program (although there are even exceptions here to allow applications for programs like early scholarship programs)</p>
<p>If you have applied ED you can apply to an EA school unless EA school prohibits it (which some do). You must withdraw your EA app if admitted ED.</p>
<p>If you withdraw your EA app at UChicago (or even another school), that does not mean the college is then going to admit someone else EA. It does not work that way. They admit EA based on individual review. They will have some soft total they don’t want to go beyond for EA offers of admission but that number has already taken into consideration an estimate of the number that will likely not accept admission if admitted EA, i.e., the soft total is more than the college expects will actually accept admission and is determined by factoring in the probability that many will not accept admission including because some will be accepted ED elsewhere.</p>
<p>^^^^^^</p>
<p>This.</p>
<p>From prior year’s experience, the universities have a very good idea of how many people they accept will ultimately go elsewhere. All their planning and actions are based on that.</p>
<p>So, Chicago already has a very good idea of how many EA applicants that they accept will go elsewhere and will work off of that. Much more sophisticated than someone does not go to Chicgo, so they accept someone else.</p>
<p>Sorry for my mistake. I assumed that since ED is binding you couldn’t apply to other schools.</p>