<p>She applied SCEA to Stanford and EA to georgetown as well as notre dame and MIT. Is she going to be discovered and is it worth reporting her? Our ignorant counselor didn't realize stanford was SCEA so she kept sending out the apps.</p>
<p>Eh don't screw someone over. Not worth your time, especially when EA doesn't help your chances.</p>
<p>maybe she didn't realize stanford was SCEA and it was an innocent misunderstanding? I'm pretty sure Stanford would find out if she got in though or deferred.</p>
<p>Why would you do that?</p>
<p>I am startled to hear that you would want to report her.</p>
<p>Well it IS unfair. But I don't think you should report it, it makes you look bad.</p>
<p>I would say that you should ask her if she knows what she's done (assuming you are on fairly good terms with her).</p>
<p>@arduouspallor: EA does help a bit, I think, and SCEA helps a little more than normal EA. It is also unethical.</p>
<p>Yeah, it's not that i'm a rat it's just a lot of people have realized that she'd done this. She hasn't been discreet with it and with a lot of us also doing SCEA to stanford it kinda raised a question if it was ethical to report her or not.</p>
<p>She committed a serious ethical and legal violation, if what you say is true. Serious. Serious enough for every one of those schools to blacklist her now and for grad school.</p>
<p>If I were you, I would notify your GC or someone in that department about the situation you believe has occurred. Maybe you heard wrong, and the salutatorian only applied EA to one of those schools. The rumor mill is notoriously unreliable, and I wouldn't jump to conclusions in a case as serious as this. I would NOT go directly to the colleges. Rather, see if this is in general 'true' or not. And from there I would act. </p>
<p>If she knowingly violated Stanford's 'Single Choice' agreement, that's pretty bad IMO, bad enough for colleges to know about it. Either way, don't do anything rash, and have your facts straight before you take any action.</p>
<p>I believe Georgetown is SCEA too. It's highly unethical and if she is caught I suspect there will be significant consequences. How could a competent GC not know that most top school's EA processes involve commitments to only that school?</p>
<p>georgetown is not scea. stanford and yale are scea</p>
<p>@laxtaxi</p>
<p>My GC didn't even know the difference between EA and ED... I had to educate her. Small school in Texas, not the most educated educators :)</p>
<p>To the OP, I wouldn't take the time to report it. Stanford is a pretty laid back school; I agree with whoever said it might make you look bad.</p>
<p>I don't know how SCEA works, because I've only done ED and non-restrictive EA, but I know that for my ED I had to sign this thing stating that this was my only binding early program, blahblahblah. It would seem to me that SCEA would most likely have something like this as well, in which case if she actually did do this, she would be fully aware that she violated the legally binding SCEA agreement. I agree with GeoffreyChaucer that you should inform your counselor of what you believe to have happened. If she really has been flaunting the fact that she applied to more than one EA when she already did SCEA, I think that you have a personal ethical duty to at least alert your counselor to the possibility that she may have done this. If you are uncomfortable doing so, you can always just ask your counselor that you remain anonymous.</p>
<p>NeoEpisteme, no matter how "laid-back" Stanford is, that doesn't change the fact that she violated a legally binding agreement when she applied to another EA after applying SCEA.</p>
<p>It isn't a legal contract.</p>
<p>How is it not a legal contract?</p>
<p>You do have to agree to the terms, so the contract is perfectly legal.</p>
<p>dont be a pansy and tell. you will just strengthen the stereotype of cc kids who cry and whine about what others do.</p>
<p>If you tell, you're a terrible person.</p>
<p>If you really think what she is doing is worthy of ruining her life over, then just let karma sort it out, there's no need for you to get involved.</p>
<p>Early</a> Decision called into question - Features</p>
<p>""Early Decision is not a legal contract, it is a moral and ethical agreement," said Conley, who oversees undergraduate admissions but is not directly responsible for admissions decisions."</p>
<p>NB: I'm not saying it is right to do what you are saying she did, but I am saying it is totally unethical to "tattle" on your school mate. Don't screw them over</p>
<p>I can't believe you'd even think to tattle. This isn't 1st grade. Her business, however immoral/unethical, is none of your business.</p>