<p>Is Harvard EA restrictive? This is what it states on it's website.</p>
<p>"Students applying to Harvard under the Early Action program are not permitted to apply early elsewhere in the fall under Single Choice Early Action or Early Decision programs. Harvard will rescind any offer of admission to a student who does so."</p>
<p>I read that as You can't apply to schools like Stanford EA or Yale EA or schools ED, but you can apply to Harvard EA and Uchicago EA and Notre Dame EA. Correct??</p>
<p>Yale is also SCEA. I would be curious about open EAs at Chicago and MIT since it seems to specify only SCEA and ED. But they also provide an exception only for public colleges and foreign institutions.</p>
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No that is not correct. You can only apply SCEA to Harvard.
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford - SCEA
For some schools you can apply EA(MIT, Uof Chicago) and ED at the same time. One exception is Georgetown EA.</p>
<p>DrGoogle - Can you tell me how you know this. Their website doesn’t seem to say that.</p>
<p>Princeton Website specifically says Single Choice Early Action - Harvard does not.</p>
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<p>Here’s the link to the Harvard website description if Single-Choice Early Action:</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> College Admissions § Applying: Early Action](<a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/application_process/early.html]Harvard”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/application_process/early.html)</p>
<p>gadad - it does clearly preclude all EAs which is where the confusion is unless they are indicating the restriction on open EAs when they say one can apply to State schools with rolling admissions.</p>
<p>"Students applying to Harvard under the Early Action program are not permitted to apply early elsewhere in the fall under Single Choice Early Action or Early Decision programs. Harvard will rescind any offer of admission to a student who does so. </p>
<p>Students are allowed to apply in the fall to public institutions under rolling or other non-binding programs. They may also apply in the fall to any institution under its Regular Action program and to foreign colleges and universities on any application schedule. "</p>
<p>Although the first paragraph does not forbid open EAs like Chicago, the intent is somewhat clear in the second paragraph when they state you can apply regular to any institution.</p>
<p>So would we be able to apply to open EA programs if we applied to SCEA Harvard? I’m interested in applying to Uchicago and I’d really like to have an acceptance before RD so I don’t have to apply to 300000 schools out of fear.</p>
<p>SCEA means you can’t apply anywhere else early (except your instate public U).</p>
<p>kleibo, my knowledge is from years reading CC. Not a smart alex answer, BTW.</p>
<p>Does anyone else think that Harvard is going to be FLOODED by EA apps? If so, would it be “strategic” to apply to a school like Yale, SCEA instead, since the applicant pool may be siphoned off, so to speak, by Harvard’s reinstating SCEA? (Not that I’m trying to “game the system”)</p>
<p>I’ve been on CC for years as well and I never said it was a smart alex answer.</p>
<p>Thanks Texaspg for clearing it up.</p>
<p>Harvard’s explanation is ambiguous right now. It says you can’t apply anywhere else under SCEA or ED, but makes no mention of regular EA at places like UChicago or Georgetown.</p>
<p>I assume that Harvard’s SCEA will work like everyone else’s SCEA, but their guidelines right now aren’t very clear.
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<p>Yeah, I think so. Unless everyone else has that same hunch and decides to apply to Yale and Princeton SCEA instead.</p>
<p>Except for the past three years, Harvard has had SCEA for a long time. I’m sure that they’ll go back to the system that has been their norm, which is to say a system identical to Yale’s.</p>
<p>I think all 4 SCEA schools will be flooded not just Harvard.</p>
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<p>It’s only ambiguous when someone parses every sentence to find a loophole. On H’s website, all the discussions are under a giant title that spells out … SCEA!</p>