<p>So I know that I can't apply to any other schools under SCEA except for schools with rolling admissions.</p>
<p>Well, I was also applying to UW-Madison, which has rolling admissions, which has two deadlines: November 15 (notification date by January 15) and February 1 (Notification by March 15). I want to send it November 15 and get a decision sooner than later.</p>
<p>But an admissions officer who came to my town said that under SCEA, I can't apply to UW unless the notification date is after January 1.</p>
<p>Do you think I will be able to apply to both?</p>
<p>While I agree that important questions often require a call to Yale, your question is directly answered on the Yale website. I believe the visiting rep gave you incorrect information. From the FAQ portion of the Yale Admissions website:</p>
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I am applying to Yale under the Single Choice Early Action program. Can you explain the rules about applying to other colleges under their various early notification programs?
If you are an applicant to Yale under the Single Choice Early Action program, then you may not apply to any early program that notifies candidates in December. However, you may apply to another college's early notification program under certain conditions. First, **you may apply to a public university's "rolling" admission program if the program is non-binding (a program is non-binding if you have until May 1 to respond). **Second, you may apply to a college with a scholarship "deadline" only if the notification of admissions occurs in the regular admissions cycle. Finally, you may apply to another college's "Round 2 Early Decision" program if notification is after January 1. If you are admitted through another college's "Round 2 Early Decision" program, you must withdraw your application from Yale.
<p>U of Wisconsin Madison falls into the rolling category discussed in the FAQ, so you may submit an application before the Nov. 15 deadline. To be sure, you could send an e-mail to your regional rep (or ask your GC, who may be able to confirm.) But this was certainly the policy in effect at Yale last year. My son had an admission to a rolling state school by late October.</p>
<p>Absolutely. If the current policy is as the OP was told, that is a big change from the past, and I don't see any indication that anything has changed at all. I know several students who, in previous years, applied SCEA to Yale and to various rolling admissions state universities, and were accepted at the state universities as early as October. I am certain this was OK under the Yale rules.</p>
<p>The admissions officer may have gotten confused between the "public university rolling admissions" rule highlighted by wjb, which can be summarized as "anything nonbinding on the student is OK" and the separate "ED II" rule that follows it, which says you can apply ED II (but not ED I) elsewhere so long as the notification date is after January 1 (which means that you would have time to withdraw your application if you had been admitted to Yale and preferred to go there rather than the ED II college).</p>
<p>I was at a traveling Yale info session on a couple of nights ago when the admissions officer said the same thing (perhaps you were the person ahead of me who asked the question?). I was surprised and immediately confirmed that applications at Madison are permitted under SCEA via the webpage wjb cites. My impression was that the admissions officer, relatively new to Yale, either didn't understand that UW-Madison is using rolling admissions or didn't fully understand the rolling admissions exception to SCEA. I have confirmed the compatibility of UW-Madison's admissions program with Yale's SCEA through another source, too, and am satisfied that coincident applications to both are permitted.</p>
<p>Please post if you find out any information to the contrary.</p>