<p>Hello.</p>
<p>I'm an international student from India and I've applied to Harvard for their Single Choice Early Action option.</p>
<p>I have also applied to universities in the UK simultaneously. Should I be fortunate enough to be accepted at Harvard early, will I have to immediately turn down my international offers? I read that Harvard gives out early offers mid-December, which is right around the time I will be interviewing for Oxford.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>No. The Harvard program does not require students who are accepted early to enroll. Like all students eventually accepted, they have until May 1 or so to decide whether to accept Harvard’s offer of admission. Therefore, since they are not committed to attend Harvard, applicants who have been accepted in December are not required to withdraw their applications to other colleges.</p>
<p>It’s a little confusing, because different U.S. universities have different systems. A lot of colleges, including places like Columbia, Brown, Penn, Duke, have binding Early Decision programs, where applicants accepted in December are required to withdraw their other applications promptly. But that is not the case at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or Stanford, or under the slightly different rules at MIT, Caltech, the University of Chicago, Georgetown, and some other colleges.</p>
<p>Thank you! That clarified everything!</p>