<p>I see that princeton has updated their how to apply pdf with details on how their early action works. Princeton will not let students apply to any other college. Who is going to apply to princeton ea when they can apply ea to harvard and yale and still apply to other public colleges. I hope they do not wait until next year to copy ea at harvard and yale. princeton really fumbled this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>You cannot apply to any other “early program.” That is different from saying that you cannot apply to any other college. As long as the public university application is not an early admission application, you can still apply. That is at least how I interpret it and many other CC posters have interpreted. I can’t imagine that Princeton would be as restrictive as you are suggesting. That wouldn’t make much sense.</p>
<p>also, Harvard appears to have changed its policy and students applying EA to Harvard cannot apply to any other EA program (which would rule out Michigan and Virginia). Here’s the Harvard language:</p>
<p>Students applying to Harvard under the Early Action program are not permitted to apply early elsewhere in the fall under Single Choice Early Action, Early Action or Early Decision programs. Harvard will rescind any offer of admission to a student who does so.</p>
<p>sorry to disagree but harvard’s website says “students are allowed to apply in the fall to public institutions under rolling or other non-binding programs.” as yale’s website says 'you may apply to a public institution in your home state." as princeton’s website says 'students may not apply early to any other institution." princeton has made huge mistake and its lack of ea applications this fall will prove their error.</p>
<p>Raskopf</p>
<p>I’m not sure what Harvard means, since the language is confusing–it’s unclear whether a student could apply to University of Michigan, which has an EA program and Harvard EA–I think that there are some people on the Harvard board who are planning to email Harvard for clarification.</p>
<p>As to Princeton, I think that the Princeton policy allows a student to apply to rolling schools, since in effect, students are applying RD to such schools (at least that’s how I read it). I will try and check with people in the admissions office about this (and about whether the school will allow students to apply to EA programs at public universities in their home states, which is the only other Yale exception to the policy).</p>
<p>“Who is going to apply to princeton ea when they can apply ea to harvard and yale and still apply to other public colleges.”</p>
<p>If you mean that one can apply to either Harvard EA or Yale EA plus applying simultaneously to a public school, then that is true, as long as you are referring to rolling admissions or regular admissions. However, the same IS true at Princeton.</p>
<p>From the Princeton Class of 2016 admission application instructions: </p>
<p>“A Single Choice Early Action Plan is offered by Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. This plan does not require a commitment to matriculate, and students may apply to other colleges under those colleges’ regular admission programs but not to another institution’s Early Action or Early Decision program.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/admission/pdfs/PU_AppInstr_11_12.pdf[/url]”>http://www.princeton.edu/admission/pdfs/PU_AppInstr_11_12.pdf</a></p>
<p>I myself was accepted to Loyola-Chicago and UIllinois under their respective rolling admissions programs while applying Early Decision to Princeton in the fall of 2006.</p>
<p>On the common application it says “REA” (restrictive early action) for Yale, who I’m positive is single choice early action, but under Harvard and Princeton it just says “EA”. And on college board’s college search option, it says non-restrictive for these 2 as well.</p>
<p>Clearly there’s some confusion going on…</p>
<h1>5, Harvard clarifies with its Q&A regarding its SCEA.</h1>
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<p>[Harvard</a> College Admissions § Applying: Early Action](<a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/application_process/early.html]Harvard”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/application_process/early.html)</p>
<p>Someone needs to call Princeton and asks them to clarify their policy regarding SCEA.</p>
<p>I called and clarified with Princeton. It’s ok to apply to public schools such as UofMichigan with rolling admissions but not to UVA with EA even if you are from Virginia. I asked them to put more stuff in their website so that students do not get confused.</p>
<p>Michigan does not have rolling admissions anymore. </p>
<p>I swear, you would think that the people at Harvard and Princeton, when they decided to get back into the Early Action game, would actually spend a couple of hours figuring out what exactly their policy was, and how to explain it clearly, and how to answer definitively the 15-20 most obvious questions about it. But from the evidence it’s hard to believe that happened. At least Harvard got its act together a little on the third try. Now it’s Princeton’s turn.</p>
<p>I have a hard time believing Princeton is going to stick to the position that Virginia residents can’t apply to UVa EA. That’s sort of wantonly cruel, and it’s more restrictive than any other SCEA school.</p>
<p>Aw, that means no applying EA to MIT, Princeton and Harvard at once. =/ Figures it’d be too good to be true. XD</p>
<p>However, you can apply EA to Caltech, MIT and UChicago at the same time and have your pick of snow or sun :-).</p>
<p>Too bad my parents want me to stay within the east coast. lmao.</p>
<p>Then you can apply to MIT, UChicago and Georgetown… I think.</p>
<p>I didn’t know Georgetown had regular early action, but now that I do; I’m definitely applying there early. :)</p>
<p>However; I’ll still be hoping other top schools will allow early action like MIT. :-)</p>
<p>I sent an email to Princeton a few weeks ago regarding this topic. </p>
<p>It seems as if the website is simply too vague. Their response indicated that applying to any school under a deadline that was neither early action or early decision does not break the agreement. It seems as if either a “priority deadline” or a “rolling” deadline do not break the terms of SCEA. </p>
<p>If you are still wondering, though, do not hesitate to contact the admissions office directly. Counselors are happy to help, and will be able to give you a more definitive answer than anybody else.</p>