Single Choice Early Action

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Can I apply early to both MIT and Yale?

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No. See: http://admissions.yale.edu/faq/single-choice-early-action

QUESTION: I am applying to Yale under the Single-Choice Early Action Program. Can you explain the rules about applying to other colleges that have early notification programs?

ANSWER: If you are a Single-Choice Early Action applicant to Yale, you may apply to another institution’s early admission program as follows:

• You may apply to any college’s non-binding rolling admission program.
• You may apply to any public institution at any time provided that admission is non-binding.
• You may apply to another college’s Early Decision II program, but only if the notification of admission occurs after January 1. If you are admitted through another college’s Early Decision II binding program, you must withdraw your application from Yale.
• You may apply to any institution outside of the United States at any time.

As MIT does not have rolling admissions, nor does it have early decision (ED) or is it a public institution, and it isn’t an institution outside of the U.S., you cannot apply SCEA to Yale and EA to MIT. You must apply to one or the other.

That said, if you apply to MIT you can apply to many other non-binding schools EA (just not Yale).