I am thinking of applying to Stanford for restrictive early action. However, applicants have to agree not to apply to any other private college/university under an Early Action, Restrictive Early Action, Early Decision or Early Notification program. I also want to apply to Princeton which also has the same type of restrictive early action, they call it single choice early early action. My question is how either school would know that I applied to the other under early action?
If your GC has half a brain, he or she will dope slap you for asking him/her to violate the school’s integrity. Please flush this utterly selfish notion from your mind completely. You not only want icing on your cake, you want to be terrible enough to stomp on everyone else’s tiny portion of cake. What you’re doing is completely unethical.
honey, dont even start to go down that road…Every year some kids as the same question , thinking they can outsmart the colleges…NO one knows if SCEA colleges share applicant lists. It s possible they do. Do you really want to find that out the hard way?
Colleges EXPECT that students will follow an Honor code and not see if they can get away with something that is specifically forbidden.
If either one finds out , at ANY point in the admissions process, even after an acceptance, your application will be rejected, and Princeton will ALSO notify any and all other Ivy colleges that you broke written rules that you agreed to, there by guaranteeing that any applications to other Ivy’s will also be rejected.
Is that what you want??
Decide which one you want to apply to .
Don’t try to cheat the system. You make it unfair for others who have integrity.
That’s why it is called RESTRICTIVE early action. You sign a contract, as do your parents, that you will not apply to other schools.
If you want the advantages of restrictive early action you must also accept the disadvantages.
And similarly and Early Decision schools you sign a contract that you will attend if accepted. Your guidance counselor has to sign too and if a student backs out other than unexpected low financial aid, the high school reputation is damaged.
Michelle Hernandez’ book claims that the Ivies do share the lists of ED/EA applicants at their annual conference for that very reason. I know that wouldn’t apply to Stanford, and may have changed a lot since her involvement, but it’s both bad form and a bad practical idea regardless.
If you don’t want the restriction, then don’t apply Restricted Early Action.