<p>Is it possible to apply ED at Columbia and apply EA at MIT?</p>
<p>I believe you can. Nothing’s listed on either website about it.</p>
<p>Yes you can. However, if you get admitted to Columbia, you have to withdraw all your other applications and attend Columbia.</p>
<p>@skieurope is correct. Normally the decisions will be released on separate days for Columbia and MIT (believe Columbia came first last year…don’t quote me on that though). </p>
<p>If you find out about Columbia first and are accepted, you’re morally obligated to withdraw your application from MIT before it’s decision comes out. In practice, how many applicants follow this rule who knows? I get that people are curious “Would I have gotten into X?”</p>
<p>You can find more detailed policies on early admissions at each prospective college’s website.</p>
<p>Generall you can apply to other schools EA if you apply to one ED. Some may be single choic early action though, so you want to read up on each individual college’s rules before you commit to anything.</p>
<p>I think MIT is not binding, so you can apply to columbia ED and MIT EA.</p>
<p>@siru95 is partially correct. If you apply for financial aid from Columbia when applying ED, you are not required to withdraw other applications until you receive your financial aid package from Columbia, which won’t happen until after MIT’s decision comes out. However, if you don’t apply for financial aid at Columbia, you will have to immediately withdraw all other applications upon ED acceptance.</p>
<p>Here is the agreement that you, your counselor, and your parent must sign:
“If you are accepted under an Early Decision plan, you must promptly withdraw the applications submitted to other colleges and universities and make no additional applications to any other university in any country. If you are an Early Decision candidate and are seeking financial aid, you need not withdraw other applications until you have received notification about financial aid from the admitting Early Decision institution.”</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your replies. Will applying to both options jeopardize my chances of getting in? In other words, will the admissions officers from both schools know that I applied to an ED and an EA, which indicates that I am not fully committed to one school?</p>
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No.</p>
<p>Aside from the fact that MIT and Columbia use completely different apps (MIT has it’s own online application while Columbia uses the CommonApp) admissions officers are not provided a list of the schools you are applying to. </p>