<p>A girl in our class applied Yale SCEA (deferred, btw), Early Decision to Rice (deferred, btw) , and Early Action to Notre Dame (accepted, btw). </p>
<p>Did she not violate the "Single Choice" policy? And if so, how would this hurt her or how would the university know?</p>
<p>I don’t know exactly what Rice’s policy is, but the student violated Yale’s SCEA policy by applying simultaneously to Rice and ND. A student who applies SCEA to Yale agrees in writing not to submit concurrent EA, ED, or SCEA applications.If Yale finds out, her application will be denied. (And if ND finds out, her acceptance could be revoked.) Unless ND sends lists of ED admittees to Yale (and I suspect it doesn’t) the only way Yale will find out is if someone blows the whistle. </p>
<p>A few of these stories pop up on CC every year. I wonder how the students get away with it. The GC had to sign off on these applications and submit transcripts and recommendations to each college. Wouldn’t s/he have been aware that the student was improperly submitting multiple ED/SCEA applications? When students do this, it tarnishes the credibility of the high school’s college counseling department and harms the chances of future applicants from the high school.</p>
<p>^ The student could’ve just pretended that all of the recs/transcripts were going to schools to which s/he was planning on applying RD. If a student doesn’t want anyone else to know, no one else will find out.</p>
<p>I think the Common App should have some automated thing that doesn’t allow students to apply to more than one restrictive EA/ED college. But I suppose it would get really glitchy and make tons of mistakes, like every other aspect of the Common App.</p>
<p>that is so frustrating! i can totally see how the counselor wouldn’t notice, though. at my school the counselors are overworked and don’t have time to nitpick applications. plus, they don’t know the common application very well, and i had to explain to my counselor what EA/ED/SCEA was because she honestly didn’t know. >_<</p>
<p>yes, she 100% violated yale’s policy. she could have applied to ND and Rice OR yale early, but the three in tandem is breaking the rules.</p>
<p>i agree with you rocker all the way! common app should have an ED-type restriction, or at least monitor who applies ED. it’d be complicated though. i want to become a college admissions officer for a while after graduation, and i must say that the process should really be streamlined in general! it’s so messy and non-cohesive!</p>
<p>guys, life is unfair and people cheat. deal with it cuz it’s not like ppl don’t cheat in college. eesh</p>
<p>There are several people on here who applied to both Yale SCEA and UChicago EA, and for whatever reason they see nothing wrong with it.</p>
<p>well obviously, pigs, but that doesn’t make it right. i don’t care much; it’s just frustrating. i’m surprised you took that stance, considering your stance on AA. (all sarcasm/silliness aside, i got the impression you thought it was monstrously unfair? and how is this not worse?)</p>
<p>Jaddua, did anyone get in to both/either?</p>
<p>***? don’t know why it did that. sorry.</p>
<p>well, i mean, the person got deferred anyways and can’t go cuz she already took an ED offer
so it’s still his/her loss</p>
<p>ya well, with stuff like this, u can’t really do anything about it. early action restrictions and aa are totally different issues</p>
<p>^^In both situations, aren’t people getting advantages?</p>
<p>that’s the thing: ND isn’t ED, so no, she is not bound. it’s EA. </p>
<p>well, kinda, but what can you do about AA? and why is it more preventable than application cheating? EDIT: i agree with rocket. although, tbh, i can understand AA more than i can understand this!</p>
<p>A couple people got into UChicago, but I’m pretty sure they were both deferred from Yale.</p>
<p>on the other hand, never mind about the AA. we have the quadruplets thread for that 
<em>eyeroll</em></p>
<p>EDIT: oh, okay, Jaddua.</p>
<p>“that’s the thing: ND isn’t ED, so no, she is not bound. it’s EA.”</p>
<p>Doesn’t SCEA imply that you CANT apply elsewhere but Yale during the early admissions round? So therefore it’s cheating. Hell, I’m ****ed at people who pull this kind of crap, and I would so snitch her out in a heartbeat. I let people get away from cheating on tests (i have a double standard on application and testing so ■■■■), but there’s no way in hell that i’m going to let someone take someone else’s spot in a university/college.</p>
<p>yes, Raddd. i was referring to notre dame, to which the girl was accepted, in response to pigs saying that she got in ED and thus couldn’t apply anywhere else, problem solved. let me clarify:</p>
<p>notre dame isn’t ED, so no, she is not bound to attend. she still broke the rule and she could still potentially opt to become my future classmate if accepted to yale in the spring.</p>
<p>I’m always a little suspicious of these stories, because it shouldn’t be that easy to do this–the guidance counselor shouldn’t let it happen. I have to think that not very many people try it, and probably most that do don’t really benefit from it.</p>
<p>LOL at some schools, guidance counselors don’t even know that colleges have early programs <em>ahem</em></p>
<p>told my GC that i was applying to yale early
his response- you can do that? ok good luck</p>
<p>I’ve heard of a guy who violated the policy and applied SCEA to both Yale and Stanford once… He got into both and is attending S. Sometimes, a guidance counselor really is overworked (this particular incident happened in a very reputed, intl IB school). In a smaller school, if the student is well-loved by the community and has everyone rooting for him/her (who doesn’t love a good small-town underdog story? :p), the counselor might even intentionally ‘overlook’ the situation. I’ve heard of this happening too. It’s frustrating, but what can you do? Who’s checking? :(</p>
<p>What Hunt said. </p>
<p>The GC has to sign off on an ED agreement. Those of you who applied to Yale SCEA, didn’t your GC also have to sign off on the EA agreement? That’s my recollection.</p>
<p>^^
But still, if she goes to a big school especially if the guidance counselor doesn’t know her, the GC could have easily have signed the three agreements without really noticing. Even more so if it was part of the big rush right before deadlines. I can definitely see this kind of thing happening at my school. :/</p>