Question about SCEA...

I want to apply Single-choice Early Action to Yale. However, it would also be nice to apply early to a safety school, so that I know I have somewhere to go early in the game, even if I get rejected at some of the highly selective schools on my list. Since the Yale SCEA deadline is Nov., can I apply to a school with rolling admissions in Sept. or Oct. and still apply SCEA? or would that be breaking the Single-choice rule? I’m not sure if applying early to someplace with rolling admissions is the same as applying, for example SCEA to Yale, and SCEA to Harvard at the same time (i know that would be conflicting). It’s probably a dumb question, but I’d appreciate some help. Thanks!

<p>bump please</p>

<p>You can apply to a school with rolling admission requires an early application submission for regular admission. Say a state univ. ie UMich or other....school which has rolling admission.
"Yale’s early plan is unlike standard Early Action programs in that you may not apply Early Action or Early Decision to any other school. (Put another way, students who are candidates for another college’s Early Action or Early Decision program may not apply for Single-Choice Early Action at Yale.) If you apply early to Yale, you will be asked to sign the Single-Choice Early Action Agreement on the Supplement stating that you intend to file only the one Yale early application."</p>

<p>ok thanks, that helps</p>

<p>As a general comment about SCEA...</p>

<p>ED always gave a person an advantage in being accepted to a particular school. The applicant pool is weaker than for RD, but the some colleges fill up 30-50% of their freshman classes with ED. This caused a public relations problem to some extent, and Stanford and Yale switched to SCEA in 2003 and Harvard shortly followed. </p>

<p>Currently, the recent articles indicate that SCEA also gives you an advantage in being accepted to a particular school. Of course, SCEA isn't binding and it doesn't have the problems with financial aid that ED did. A lot of the issue from the college side is whether a college that doesn't have the yield of a Stanford/Yale/Harvard can afford to give up ED.</p>

<p>"Always an advantage" can you tell me the advantage to a student who is perhaps not as stong a candidate in the SCEA/ED pool?? While you did make the distinction that RD pool is less competetive or "weaker" as you called it I don't think it is wise to tell an applicant that there is always an advantage for I do not believe that is accurate.</p>

<p>Sorry. When I said "always", I meant that in the past before SCEA, there was always a statistical advantage for ED applicants. I did not mean that there was always an advantage for an individual applicant. </p>

<p>However, an applicant who isn't strong in the ED pool is probably going to be even less strong in the RD pool unless something changes in their app such as higher SAT scores, etc. For this reason and for an individual applicant, they may be a stronger candidate in RD than ED. If they don't make it in ED, however, they may be deferred into the RD round and then have a better chance because they showed interest by applying ED. I am not a big fan of the way that ED works, and hopefully it will be fixed. (As always, don't apply ED if you also plan to apply for financial aid.)</p>

<p>It is always hard to make definitive statements about admissions because there is always an exception to the rule.</p>

<p>Hazmat is actually wrong in this case. </p>

<p>You CAN apply to a rolling school before the Nov. deadline for regular admission. As long as you do not apply under another Early program, you are fine.</p>

<p>I thought I basically said that......the "safety" part of the question is a bit vague but the rules on rolling admission schools generally don't precude an SCEA contract.</p>

<p>The rules for ED, EA, and SCEA are not standard at colleges. Each college has its own rules, and you really have to check the fine print at each college in order to make sure that you don't violate anything at any one of the colleges.</p>