<p>I'm thinking about applying EA to a school, but it doesn't really seem like it's doing anything special. Can someone please explain some of the benefits?</p>
<p>Isn't it just you're turning your application in early and you get an answer back quicker? If so, then what does that really matter since you're going to have to wait for your other schools' answers to come?</p>
<p>I guess I'm just confused lol</p>
<p>If you don’t mind me adding to your questions: is applying RD worth the extra few months or so that you get? And for which schools would you benefit the most from applying EA?</p>
<p>get an answer back quicker?
that is alot IMHO…</p>
<p>There are a couple of advantages - a quicker answer and the knowledge you’ve made it into one of your schools, and less work at crunch time because you get at least one app out of the way.</p>
<p>If you were admitted EA to a school you would go to then you could focus on your reach schools. As an example - purely on ranking now, if you were admitted to U. Chicago, Georgetown or better still Stanford/Yale, then you wouldn’t need to apply to 5+ safeties and matches. It would also take out a lot of stress during the RD round. EA is not the same as rolling admission. EA is notified the same time as ED, rolling admission you find out depending on when you apply.</p>
<p>Someone posted this season, her son was admitted EA to U. Chicago, so he only applied to HPY during RD. He didn’t need to apply to his safeties.</p>
<p>basically what oldfort said - less stress, less money spent on safety/match applications. The money thing was a big one for me.</p>
<p>However, at some schools, EA acceptance rates are actually lower than RD acceptance rates (but ED rates are usually the highest).</p>
<p>what if the EA acceptance rates are higher than the RD rates for all of the schools you’re applying to? can’t u just apply EA to all of those schools then, instead of doing the RD thing…?
lmao, i guess i’m confused too :/</p>
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Most schools don’t have EA. </p>
<p>If one of the schools you are interested in does have it, you might as well apply early and get feedback that something might be wrong with your application if you are rejected, or peace of mind if you get in.</p>
<p>Top schools with EA: MIT, Caltech, Chicago, Georgetown, UMich</p>
<p>Stanford and Yale are the only schools to have another program called Singe Choice Early Action, which is a compromise between EA and ED - you can only apply to one place early, but even if you get still apply to other places RD.</p>
<p>well beyond hearing back sooner you also in most cases have an improved chance of getting in. To me of course hearing back sooner was the biggest advantage, because I applied to very competitive schools. I knew early one where I was accepted and where I wasn’t. This was a huge advantage because even though I did very well in the early round if I didn’t it still gave me some time to find some quick back-ups to apply to.</p>
<p>Well if you apply SCEA (single choice) that means you have singled that as your top choice. ie. If you apply SCEA to Stanford, they know that you like em more than Yale, and so forth.</p>
<p>SCEA is only of concern to people who both A) think they have a chance at Stanford and Yale and B) don’t want to do EA at MIT and Caltech (increasing your odds of an early acceptance to at least one top school). It will be interesting if less selective colleges start using SCEA.</p>
<p>Well you get to find out if your accepted into your top choice university. Though many say scholarships are low with EA.</p>
<p>It is the case with ED because it’s binding.</p>
<p>lol this thread is long over.</p>
<p>Why…Is it so obvious to you?</p>