Question about Common App ED1 and ED2

Parents Forum
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<p>Hi all,
I have a question. Once a student chooses an ED school in the common app and submits it, is he/she locked out of an ED2 school choice? A student I know applied ED1 to a school, and wanted to fill out and send her ED2 choice, in case she doesn't get into the first choice. She showed me the screen, and the only choices available are to apply RD.</p>

<p>Is this because ED1 decisions are not made until mid-December, and after that the EDII option will be available? She is quite stressed over this, because she likes her second school quite a bit as well.</p>

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<p>I believe you can only do one ED, and it does not matter I or II.</p>

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<p>The whole idea of ED2 is that you can do it if you haven't been accepted somewhere else ED1. So the option must be available at some point. I would check it again after November 1 or November 15 or whenever all the ED1 application deadlines have passed.</p>

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<p>Nearly all ED agreements, including the common app one, specifically bar a student from having two active ED applications, whether EDI or EDII, so having the computer lock you out would be consistent with the ED agreement.</p>

<p>Someone who's denied EDI can apply EDII to a second institution, but only after a rejection (or the rare declining of the EDI offer) after the EDI notification deadline.</p>

<p>Some schools will convert a RD app to EDII, so it's worth asking about that possibility.</p>

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<p>^^^^
Are you allowed to decline an ED acceptance?</p>

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<p>Finaid applicants can rescind for financial reasons.</p>

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<p>What if circumstances come up and the student wants to change his ED school, and the college does not allow a paper application?</p>

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<p>Call that college and ask them what to do. Of course, make sure first to withdraw the first ED application, or request the school in writing (snail mail) to change it to RD.</p>

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<p>My older son applied to School 1 ED I and was rejected. He then applied to School 2 ED II and was accepted.</p>

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<p>Are there many schools with an ED II? What are the ED II deadlines?</p>

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<p>Most schools offer EDII, the deadlines are usually around mid-January.</p>

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<p>I've found that the EDII deadline tends to be the RD deadline; I haven't seen any one that's later than RD. Check the individual websites, but "mid-January" can be dangerous since so many schools have moved their RD deadlines up to Jan. 1.</p>

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<p>If RD deadlines are Jan I (I don't recall, D applied and was accepted EDI), the EDII deadlines will be earlier. But I remember there being considerably more variety in EDII deadlines than w/ EDI or EA.</p>

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If RD deadlines are Jan I (I don't recall, D applied and was accepted EDI), the EDII deadlines will be earlier.

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<p>Not necessarily. Both Vassar and Wesleyan have both ED II and RD deadlines of January 1. (These are the two my d was considering, so I just know of them quickly. She ended up not doing ED anywhere.)</p>

<p>That's why I said that you need to check each individual website.</p>

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<p>In my limited experience, ED II deadline always = RD deadline.</p>

<p>Nothing else makes any sense. For schools with a January 1 deadline, there isn't enough time between the ED I notification date (sometimes after December 15) and the RD deadline to insert another deadline in there. Even if a school has a January 15 RD deadline, it wouldn't gain anything meaningful from getting its ED II applications a week or two earlier. What ED II means is "tell us we're your first (remaining) choice and that you'll enroll if accepted, and we'll read your application first with that in mind and give you an answer in a few weeks."</p>