It’s not enough that there is ED, ED1, ED2, EA, SCEA and Rolling Admissions, I guess. What is EA2 and who has it?
Someone I know looking at Yale SCEA. The Yale page regarding g this specifically says EA2 allowed though regular EA is not, in conjunction with SCEA. Never heard about that one.
I’m sure a GA, Guaranteed Acceptance (of college’s admittance offer) coming up too. In March, would be great timing.
That’s a new one for me too and my D graduated HS in '18!.
Yale does not define what it considers “Early Action II” at https://admissions.yale.edu/single-choice-early-action .
But it presumably means later early action programs like these:
https://www.austincollege.edu/admission/apply/deadlines/
https://www.hofstra.edu/admission/adm_counselors_deadlines.html
https://www.wpi.edu/admissions/undergraduate/apply
Presumably, the restrictive early action rules are meant to prevent also applying early action to specific cross-admit competitors (i.e. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, MIT) without actually naming them, hence the exceptions that they are not worried about cross-admit competition from (e.g. public universities, universities with rolling admission, universities with later early action).
Thank you, @ucbalumnus. This really threw me for a loop. I figured that SCEA or REA would not allow applications to other schools with the same restrictions, which is pretty much self defined in that you can only apply to one such school. That it excludes other EA schools is disappointing, and was what took several schools off my son’s early list (BC, ND) but I had no idea that EA also had I and II just like ED.
OK, EA2 makes some sense.
My ds was in the exact situation. He applied SCEA to Yale. He also applied EA2 to Lawrence University. The key determinant is if the notification date is AFTER the Yale SCEA notification date.
@brantly , how long ago was this? I’d not heard of EA2 until now. With now 4 colleges brought up in this thread that have it, And Yale’s reference to it, there is that niche for it. A way around the SCEA schools. We ended up skipping SCEA for the opportunity to apply to a number of EA colleges.
I’m familiar with WPI, Hofstra and Lawrence. I can see them making nice complements to a SCEA choice.
@cptofthehouse It was this cycle! He’s a HS senior now. Yale said he can apply anyplace that had a stated notification date after the SCEA notification date (in addition to the usual EA exception for public universities). Lawrence’s EA2 notification was, I think, early January. He also applied to Ithaca College regular EA because its notification was mid-January, I believe. Anyway, he was deferred from Yale and was admitted to Lawrence and Ithaca with significant merit. He decided to apply to Tufts ED2 and got in.
Pretty sure the admissions officer at Kenyon spoke of EA2 when I was there, and that it all falls in line with what @ucbalumnus wrote above.
Who’s got the Excedrin?
I can see LACs and other small schools doing this. They don’t get as many apps and many really want more applicants.