<p>In this thread:</p>
<p>nobromo reports that he has applied to one school ED and one school EA.</p>
<p>I thought that if you apply to one school ED, that's it. Nothing else allowed, nada.</p>
<p>But obviously I thought wrong. Could someone help me out here? What are the restrictions once you choose to apply somewhere ED?</p>
<p>ED is binding should you be accepted, but you can still apply to other schools. In this case he applied to Chicago EA. Early ACTION is non-binding, so you do not have to go to the school if accepted, unlike Early DECISION where you are legally bound to attend that university and withdraw any other acceptances and applications.</p>
<p>BTW the caps isn’t out of anger or anything, just for emphasis.</p>
<p>Though some schools don’t let you apply to others if you do ED.</p>
<p>^ Yes… that’s what I thought.</p>
<p>Thanks, I think I get it. </p>
<p>It sounds like if I absolutely 100% want School #1, I should apply ED. But I still don’t know that they 100% want me. So no matter how sure I am that this is a perfect match, I could start hedging my bets in the fall and apply EA to the second best school in the world. </p>
<p>Now in terms of knowing what each school allows, that shouldn’t be so hard, because I only have to find out the ED policy for one school.</p>
<p>Am I there yet?</p>
<p>Close. You have to make sure none of your other schools are SCEA (Single Choice Early Action - Yale, Stanford) or REA (Restricted Early Action - BC, Georgetown).</p>
<p>SCEA - You can only apply to one school early at all. No other EA schools, let alone ED.</p>
<p>REA - You can apply EA other places, but no ED.</p>
<p>Almost–you need to check the policies of BOTH schools. Chicago is a place that lets you apply EA and then anywhere else you like either ED or EA. However, some EA schools are not so free about this and do not permit an ED application as well. Similarly, some ED schools are fine with an EA at the same time, others are not. Of course, if you are able to apply ED and EA because of the schools you wanted and were accepted to both, you would immediately need to notify your EA school that you were accepted ED and could not attend their school.</p>
<p>Also note–EA and ED do not impact rolling admissions. Nothing ever prevents you from applying to and being accepted by a school that just happens to let you know whether you are accepted in the fall instead of the spring.</p>
<p>Thanks, I think I’d better bookmark this thread and come back to it later.</p>
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<p>Stanford ED applicants can apply to public state schools EA though (in your own state). That’s what I’m probably going to do.</p>