<p>If you apply Early Action, can you also apply Early Descision somewhere else?</p>
<p>Nope; only EA other places</p>
<p>That sucks so much. Because Georgetown is my #1 but it has al ow rate of EA so that would be such a hard decision for me.</p>
<p>At Georgetown your chances truly are no better EA than they are RD.</p>
<p>If Georgetown is your #1, why would you be looking into applying to other schools ED? If it is your number 1 you should apply there EA and not even consider applying elsewhere ED.</p>
<p>I know, but if I didn't get in for EA, then I might have screwed myself over for another college second to Georgetown. I'm just seeing the chances, 21% which is pretty low, while other good colleges have better chances applying for ED. This will be a hard hard decision when the time comes.</p>
<p>You can only get defered at georgetown not reject after EA so I dont see why you are applying ED if it really is your number one b/c what if you get defered then accepted?</p>
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I'm just seeing the chances, 21% which is pretty low
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It was actually 18% last time...</p>
<p>I understand it. Lots of kids are faced with similar choices when their 1st choice school has no ED option. EA is great, but at the very selective schools it doesn't give you a boost, really. ED frequently does. So if your chances of getting into 1st choice school aren't that great anyway, are you squandering the opportunity of a possible ED boost at the 2nd choice school? Is foregoing the 1st choice school in exchange for somewhat better odds at #2 school worth it?</p>
<p>It's a complicated question. I would suggest you don't worry too much about it right now, because you're a ways out yet on application deadlines. Just continue to learn more about your options and let things settle out. You can't know for sure how you'll feel about Georgetown or anywhere else come next fall.</p>
<p>My son was really into the idea of Georgetown, and then as the months wore on and he visited a few other schools, his perspective on it changed and he chose somewhere that wasn't even much on his radar in the spring of his junior year.</p>
<p>If it's still a dilemma for you next year, then you may have to just make a choice, but give it some time. No need to be definitive now.</p>
<p>The same thing happened to me as 'rentof2's son. When I first started looking at colleges the only place I could see myself at was Georgetown. Then I visited Georgetown and I really just didn't like it--too conservative, too preppy--just didn't look like much fun. I ended up applying EA anyway, but I got deferred and then rejected RD.</p>
<p>In the long run though I'm glad I didn't get in because my parents would have pressured me to go there even though I didn't really like it that much.</p>
<p>So why did I tell you this? To reinforce 'rentof2's advice to wait on the decision. Look around for other schools and revisit the idea of what you want to do in the late summer and early fall.</p>