<p>My understanding of EA with single choice is to apply EA to only one college with exception of public colleges. How does the college that you apply EA know if you also apply EA to other colleges?</p>
<p>I thought the exception was for rolling admissions schools, not state schools specifically.</p>
<p>I think the general idea is that you can submit regular applications to any school, but you cannot seek admission under an early action / early decision program anywhere. Schools with rolling admissions take regular applications starting in September and process them through a decision as they come in, rather than accumulating them all and making all decisions at once. But those are still the schools' regular applications. So they aren't precluded under the SCEA programs.</p>
<p>For the class of 2012 there will only be two SCEA programs going, and students in a position to submit a strong application to either school are not all that likely to be interested in the (relatively few) selective private colleges that do rolling admissions. As a practical matter, the exception is relevant for lots of state universities, though. </p>
<p>(I just looked at the Yale rules, and they don't say anything about rolling admissions, just regular decision applications. I have a feeling that the last time I looked at this, which was two years ago, the rules specifically permitted applications to public universities with rolling admissions.)</p>