<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I want to apply Early Restrictive Action to Harvard, but I'm very nervous because I want to also apply Early Decision to Wesleyan. What happens if both accept me? My friend told me ERA only applies to other "early action" applications, but he might have meant both early action and early decision.</p>
<p>Also: If I do not send in regular decision applications past November 1st, am I truly doomed?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure you can’t submit anything else early with restrictive early action, which includes early decision to another school. Read on those policies. Honestly at schools like Harvard early action doesn’t make a difference. It’s a lottery either way.</p>
<p>“I want to apply Early Restrictive Action to Harvard, but I’m very nervous because I want to also apply Early Decision to Wesleyan.”</p>
<p>you should be nervous because you’d be violating Harvard’s EA agreement. And your GC would be an idiot for processing this obvious violation and jeopardizing your high school.</p>
<p>Re-read Harvard’s EA agreement. You can’t apply to both Harvard REA and Weslyan ED. </p>
<p>“Also: If I do not send in regular decision applications past November 1st, am I truly doomed?” </p>
<p>Stop being a drama queen. When is the RD deadline for both Harvard and Wesleyan? It’s not Nov 1st. Look it up and act accordingly.</p>
<p>Got it.
But all my guidance counselors and even college reps told me “the sooner, the better,” so I considered November 1st and “invisible deadline.”</p>
<p>Harvard “requests” its applicants to submit early – in order to spread out their workload. I think it’s baloney. But their Jan 1 deadline IS the deadline.</p>
<p>If your apps are 100% ready, then by all means submit. If you need time to polish one or two more things, then don’t cave to that pressure. You get one chance. Blow them away! Good luck</p>
<p>Unless they have changed the Common Application, you will be locked out of all ED programs once you apply SCEA to Harvard (or any other college’s restrictive early program).</p>