Single Choice Early Action

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>I was reviewing the other schools you can apply to if you submit an application under Yale's single choice admission plan and I was unsure of whether or not you can apply to early action (non binding) at another ivy league school such as Harvard or Cornell. Thanks in advance! =)</p>

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<p>Harvard doesn’t have any early notification programs. Also, Cornell doesn’t use early action, it uses Early Decision, and you would be ineligible to apply ED to Cornell if you applied to Yale SCEA. I’d reccomend that you read through [url=<a href="http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/eafaq.html]Yale’s[/url"&gt;http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/eafaq.html]Yale’s[/url&lt;/a&gt;] (or any other colleges) website to find this information. </p>

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<p>You cannot apply to any other early program (EA or ED) if you apply to SCEA. This includes Cornell’s. Harvard does not have an early program.</p>

<p>You can apply to state universities with rolling admissions programs. A rolling admissions program is one in which applications are considered as they arrive as opposed to “pooled together” after a deadline and considered collectively (e.g., U of Michigan and U of Wisconsin use this method. U of Washington (Seattle) is abandoning it this year. See <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/780010-great-state-schools-rolling-admissions.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/780010-great-state-schools-rolling-admissions.html&lt;/a&gt;).</p>

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This might be a bit misleading. As far as I know, you can apply EA to a public institution in your home state.</p>

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<p>[Early</a> Action FAQ | Application to Yale College | Freshmen | Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/eafaq.html]Early”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/eafaq.html)</p>

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<p>^ That’s really very clear (except for the ambiguity about what constitutes a “rolling” admission program). You high schoolers should learn to read stuff like this, and read it carefully. It’s a good life skill.</p>

<p>Also, it’s not hard to learn that there are NO Ivy League schools with Early Action, except for Yale. Everyone else is either binding Early Decision or nothing (Harvard and Princeton). Big EA schools include MIT, Chicago, Caltech, Georgetown, Tulane, Boston College . . . and you are not allowed to apply EA to any of them if you also want to apply SCEA to Yale or Stanford.</p>

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I stand corrected. Yale has refined the rules since I last looked.</p>

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<p>Thanks. And just to clarify, what is a Round 2 Early Decision?</p>

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<p>There are many colleges that use ED II – a second round of Early Decision. It works the same as ED I: ED II application deadlines are generally around January 1, and the student gets a binding decision in February. Acceptance is binding. No Ivy uses ED II.</p>

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<p>Oh ok, thanks</p>

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<p>The general intent of ED II is to give ED I applicants rejected by their first choice a chance to do an ED application with their second choice.</p>

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<p>Agree. And it’s also used by some students who just couldn’t pull the trigger during the EDI round, but who have firmed up their decision by January.</p>

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<p>I was always looking to apply to Yale SCEA and Michigan’s rolling admission as my early admission strategy. </p>

<p>however, I just found out that Michigan changed its admission policy from “early response” to “early action” </p>

<p>“The University of Michigan Office of Undergraduate Admissions is pleased to announce that we are changing from Early Response to Early Action with our move to the Common App for prospective freshman applying for Fall 2011”

<p>Although the process doesn’t seem to have changed, this probably means that I, as an international student who doesn’t live in Michigan, cannot apply to Michigan EA if I were to apply to Yale SCEA</p>

<p>or maybe i’m misinterpreting the information. Can someone clarify this?
I know many of you were planning on doing the same thing as me, so…</p>

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<p>Since Michigan has moved to early action, I believe the only students who could apply to both Michigan and Yale via early notification programs are in-state Michigan residents.</p>