<p>what is the point of SCEA? and how do they monitor whether or not you've also applied early at other schools?</p>
<p>and while we're at it... what is the point of EA in general, if anyone knows.</p>
<p>People apply EA so that they know whether or not they've gotten into their first-choice school before they send in their other applications. I saved muchisimo dinero on application fees this way.</p>
<p>They also do it so that their first-choice school knows that they are their first choice. (The "Single Choice" part ensures this.)</p>
<p>Also to lessen stress--get one application (the most important one) out of the way, then worry about the others. </p>
<p>I don't know how they would monitor whether or not you're honoring the single choice part of the deal. I guess they just trust that you'll be a decent human being by modern Western standards and abide by the statement you've signed. (I think it's common to have you--and your counselor and a parent, even--sign something saying that you are, indeed, only applying early to the one school. Or maybe it just says that the counselor and parent knows what you're doing and deems it in your best interest; then if you were to make your counselor and parent sign it for more than one school, you would be making them accomplices in your dishonesty.)</p>