<p>I am going to apply to Stanford, under their Restrictive Early Action program. </p>
<p>I was wondering can I apply to Stanford under REA and to University of Michigan - Ann Arbor under their Early Action program? I am also going to be applying to other colleges that have the EA such as UChicago, and what not.</p>
<p>Please let me know.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>You should always go to the source for these very important details and although I am going to direct you to the website now, you should carefully read it again later this summer in case any of the information has changed.
[Restrictive</a> Early Action : Stanford University](<a href=“Page Not Found : Stanford University”>Page Not Found : Stanford University)</p>
<p>And this:
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<p>It is called restrictive for a reason.</p>
<p>There are exceptions to REA, and one of them is non-binding rolling programs. I believe Michigan has a rolling program, so you’d be free to apply to it along with Stanford’s REA. </p>
<p>(Unrelated note, when did Stanford start calling it ‘REA’ instead of ‘SCEA’? Weird.)</p>
<p>You can apply to Michigan EA, because it is a public state school, and is NOT in conflict with Stanford’s REA rules and regulations.</p>
<p>you can apply to publics and internationals within the program. If you’re not sure, you can call the admissions department, but be warned, because it takes forever!</p>
<p>Further down on the same Restrictive Early Action link posted by Greta, the Stanford admissions people state:</p>
<h1>The student may apply to any college/university with a non-binding rolling admission process.</h1>
<h1>The student may apply to any public college/university.</h1>
<p>Application to international schools is also permitted as an exception to the general rules.</p>
<p>So, yes, you may apply to the University of Michigan under an early action program and still apply to Stanford REA. </p>
<p>Sometimes, people are uncertain whether the University of Michigan is a public university. This is not totally obvious from the name. For example, the University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy League school. I believe that about 10% of the University of Michigan’s funding comes from the State of Michigan, and the remainder from other sources. In fact, there is fairly frequent discussion about whether the University of Michigan should convert to private school status. However, at present it is public.</p>
<p>A cautionary word: double check with the Stanford admissions staff regarding applying to Michigan early. While it may have been ok with Stanford for REA applicants to apply early to Michigan in the past, I believe some posters this last fall found out it may no longer be permitted. (I may be misremembering 
) I would call Stanford Admissions and ask to be sure.</p>
<p>DO NOT LISTEN TO THESE POSTS ^
Michigan is now under an EA program and not a rolling program, so you are only allowed to apply to it EA if you live IN Michigan. </p>
<p>I tried to do the same, REA to Stanford and EA to Michigan but my counselor called Stanford admissions and they said that was not allowed. (I’m not from Michigan btw) they said the only schools I could apply to are state public schools and rolling admissions schools.</p>
<p>Wait nevermind the site now says that you can apply to any public university… This is definitely not what it said for this application cycle since I had to switch my Umich app from EA to Regular at the request of the admissions office at Stanford.</p>
<p>They must have changed the “Restrictive Early Action” site at Stanford, to allow applications to any public university. It doesn’t say that it has to be an in-state public, now.</p>
<p>Probably because many public colleges apparently have fairly early deadlines for merit scholarships, and there were recurrent questions about whether submitting early scholarship applications contravened Stanford’s REA policy. This seems clearer, and much more humane, given Stanford’s admission rate.</p>
<p>Yea I had to hold off on applying Michigan EA because of the REA policy and since I’m rejected I don’t hear back from Michigan until mid-April, which basically takes it out of the running for my college choices if I get in since there’s no way I could visit and make a decision on it by May 1st.</p>
<p>A person I know just received his acceptance under REA from Stanford yesterday. What does it mean? The site says notification by Dec 15 or if deferred by April 1. He’s a full paying foreign student. Do they have different admissions plans? What gives? Could it be he was first deferred Dec 15 under REA, then someone who was accepted under REA dropped out (crazy fool), and this person was the next best qualified, so they accepted and notified him earlier than April 1, i.e. yesterday Feb 18, 2011?</p>