<p>I was at a "College Application Camp" (paid around 600$) and the counselor who supposedly has a lot of experience, etc. told me that since I'm applying to Restrictive Early Action to Stanford, I cannot apply anywhere else early (which I was already aware of), but she also said that if I do get accepted, Stanford will give my name to their "sister" colleges (Ivy League and other elite colleges I'm assuming), and those colleges will know that I already got in early at Stanford, which obviously looks bad to Harvard and stuff cause they would question why they should give me admission if I already chose Stanford as my first choice.</p>
<p>The problem I have is that I still get until May 1st to choose if I want to go to Stanford or elsewhere, and just cause I chose Stanford for SCEA doesn't mean I'm gonna go there...I might end up going to Harvard if they give me better financial aid but then they might not admit me after they find out I already got into EA Stanford.</p>
<p>Does anyone else know if this is true? If Stanford will actually send their list of students who got in EA to its "sister" colleges? And do other colleges like MIT/Yale do this? I have NEVER heard of this.</p>
<p>I say this because a girl I know was accepted early by Harvard and then wait-listed by Stanford. When our gc talked to Stanford they said it was, in part, because she had gone with Harvard in the early round and they weren't sure she wanted to attend.</p>
<p>Seeing as the kid they accepted RD, stuck with his EA at Harvard, it's a pretty sound belief.</p>
<p>There sure could be worse things than being stuck with having to accept your Harvard EA. :)</p>
<p>While Stanford may care about whether one has an EA acceptance, I would bet money that with the highest yield in the country, Harvard wouldn't care if an applicant was EA accepted elswhere. In fact, in their handbook for alum interviewers, they ask alums not to ask students about other applications. </p>
<p>What Harvard would care about is if a student has a a binding ED acceptance because those are binding, and even if that ED acceptance came from Podunk U, if H hears about it, H will not accept the applicant. H also will rescind acceptances to students accepted binding ED elsewhere.</p>
<p>Well, I am applying EA Stanford, but what if Harvard RD gets me more financial aid (which I think it will) and I end up going to Harvard unless they reject me cause I applied EA Stanford.</p>
<p>wait...do all colleges do this? I'm going to try to apply EA to about 4 schools, so if I get accepted for example by SUNY Binghmaton, will all the other private schools find out and think im interested there and wont go to their schools!??!?!</p>
<p>Alright ses, I got your point. Except what if Harvard would have given me more aid than Stanford (and if I got into Harvard, I could tell Stanford that Harvard gave me more aid and Stanford matched it then), but what if Harvard rejects me because they see that I applied SCEA Stanford? I think I'm just gonna call up Stanford undergrad office and ask them this question directly.</p>
<p>If Stanford actually does this (and I doubt it does), you'll be glad to know that its peers don't really care. I was accepted to Stanford SCEA, and was still accepted everywhere else I applied, including Yale and Princeton. Don't worry about it.</p>
<p>Harvard and Princeton have no right to reject students accepted EA somewhere else, since they don't offer an early option anymore. How can they be sure one wouldn't have preferred their school instead? I was going to apply ED at Princeton, but now I'll apply SCEA at Yale.</p>
<p>"Harvard and Princeton have no right to reject students accepted EA somewhere else, since they don't offer an early option anymore."</p>
<p>They have the "right" to reject whoever they want, and it wouldn't surprise me if they took other schools EA into consideration to boost their numbers and look better in those silly rankings you all pay attention to. You all created this monster.</p>
<p>"wait...do all colleges do this? I'm going to try to apply EA to about 4 schools, so if I get accepted for example by SUNY Binghmaton, will all the other private schools find out and think im interested there and wont go to their schools!??!?!"</p>
<p>His was restrictive EA. If yours is just plain EA you will probably be fine. You can ask them though.</p>
<p>My D got in EA to Yale last year, and was acceped to all of her RD schools (which included others at the same level of selectivity). In watching these boards over the past two years, most top students get into several of the elites. And I agree that you want to be able to compare FA. For us, it varied by as much as 20k/yr between some Ivies and top LACs. I would question anything you heard from that counselor :(</p>