Question regarind EA (I'm an International)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>I know that Harvard uses a restrictive EA system--and I understand that if I send my app early to Harvard, then I won't be able to EA another university in the States, but my question is this: would I be able to apply to a university in another country?</p>

<p>The circumstances that have me asking this rather peculiar question are these: I'm a Korean international student and I really want to apply EA to Harvard, but I also want to apply RD to several Korean universitites as well. However, Korea's schooling system has a January-to-December school year (as opposed to the mid-year to mid-year school year the American system uses), and thus I need to send in my RD apps for the Korean universities during the first semester of my senior year--which would coincide with the time I would need to send in my EA for Harvard.</p>

<p>Question: would Harvard view this as a violation of the restrictive EA rules?</p>

<p>I really need an answer to this, and if no one's sure--should I perhaps email Harvard and ask? I really don't know what to do. I was planning on going ahead and doing it, never thinking that it might violate the Harvard EA rules, but a friend pointed it out to me a couple of days ago, and now I'm fairly worried about what to do. Does anybody have an answer?</p>

<p>Anyway, thanks in advance!</p>

<p>~Hyun</p>

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<p>You want to be safe on this, so I think you should just go ahead and email Harvard:)</p>

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<p>See the section on Application Materials in the prospectus and on the website, under the heading "Important Information About Early Admission", it says: "(students) may also apply in the fall to any institution under its Regular Action program, and to foreign colleges and universities on any application schedule."</p>

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<p>Just to clarify, that quote above is from the Harvard application itself.</p>

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<p>Same thing applies to me at English colleges... Yeah you can apply to any foreign schools regardless of time period.</p>