This has to be against the rules, right?

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<p>So this girl from my school got back her results from the early round a couple of months ago, and ended up being deferred by Princeton, and accepted by UVA. A few weeks ago, she offhandedly remarked that she had also been deferred by Yale as well. Now I'm not terribly familiar with the policies at each of these schools, but I know that Yale is DEFINITELY SCEA, which means that she shouldn't have applied to the other two schools as all, right?</p>

<p>I just think this whole situation is unfair, because she got accepted to UVA although she shouldn't have even applied. Can someone let me know if any of this reasoning is right, or if I'm completely off, lol.</p>

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<p>Doing Princeton and Yale early action would be against the SCEA rule of each. However, both of those allow simultaneously applying to public universities EA.</p>

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<p>All of these are Quest Bridge partner schools, so she could be a National College Match Finalist in the Quest Bridge program. I haven’t looked into the policies of Yale and Princeton, but Harvard allows students applying early to also apply to their state’s flagship public university early.</p>

<p>Still, Yale and Princeton do conflict unless she was in the NCM, and she wouldn’t be notified of deferral from those schools. Although, not matching in the program is essentially like getting deferred from the schools you ranked, so she could just be saying it this way because it’s shorter than explaining the ranking process and how NCM works.</p>

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<p>She’s not in Questbridge or anything, she just applied to Yale, Princeton and UVA early</p>

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<p>[Single-Choice</a> Early Action for Freshman Applicants | Yale College Admissions](<a href=“http://admissions.yale.edu/scea]Single-Choice”>Single Choice Early Action for First-Year Applicants | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions)
[Princeton</a> University | Single-Choice Early Action](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/single-choice-early-actio/]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/single-choice-early-actio/)</p>

<p>Based on the above, Yale and Princeton SCEA rules mean that the student should not apply SCEA to both of them. Applying to UVA EA is ok by either’s SCEA rules, since UVA is a public school.</p>

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<p>How could she do this without the knowledge and participation of the guidance counselor?</p>

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<p>A lot of counselors are clueless I guess, cause the same thing happened with a kid I know. He applied early to Rice and some other schools, I forget, and then mentioned the other day (in December) that he was deferred at Yale. I was like… uhh… isn’t that single choice early action? He was like “nope.” “uhhhhh well ok then good luck RD…”</p>

<p>Don’t sweat it. It was against the rules but they didn’t get in anyway so they didn’t benefit from it. Move on.</p>

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<p>I just feel bad for people who played by the rules and got rejected by UVA when she broke the rules and got in…</p>

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<p>But she did nothing improper in applying to UVa. If she had applied to Princeton SCEA she could apply to UVa EA. If she applied to Yale, she could apply to UVa. The only prohibited act was applying to both Yale and Princeton and it is not clear that actually happened as to Yale. Also, even if it happened you don’t know whether she knew she was violating any rule.</p>

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<p>Does this kind of thing happen a lot? And if so, has anybody ever gotten caught?</p>

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<p>Has it crossed your mind that she might have just made it up? Maybe she wanted to sound more impressive or something…?</p>