<p>what is SCEA?</p>
<p>Single-Choice Early Action or Regular Review?</p>
<p>Stanford offers two different application options from which you can choose: Single-Choice Early Action (SCEA) and Regular Review. Only you can know which option better meets your timeline and goals.</p>
<p>Resist the urge to complete your application by our early admission deadline unless you are convinced that Stanford is your clear first-choice school. Single-Choice Early Action at Stanford is a non-binding early admission option for those students who have completed a thorough and thoughtful college search. It allows you to learn of your admission decision in December without requiring a response until May 1 or obligating you to enroll at Stanford.</p>
<p>Single-Choice Early Action allows you to apply to as many colleges as you want under a Regular admission timeframe, but it does require that you not submit an application to any school under early decision, early action, or early notification.* This option gives you time to reflect on future plans and, if you so choose, explore a variety of educational institutions that might meet your individual needs and aspirations. </p>
<p>If you need more time to make a college selection, we encourage you to apply during our Regular Review period, and to use your entire senior year to reflect on your future plans, explore a variety of educational institutions that meet your individual needs and aspirations, and weigh your choices carefully and completely. Those students who rush to complete an application just to make an early admission deadline may miss the opportunity to submit a more thoughtful and compelling application later during the regular admission period.</p>
<p>*Note that there are several exceptions to this requirement.</p>
<p>would they know if you did submit early anywhere else?</p>
<p>No, unless those colleges informed them.</p>
<p>All the ED/SCEA applications are held by the honor code.</p>
<p>You would be violating the contract agreement of SCEA and if they find out I think that they'll probably not accept you (if they were inclined to in the first place) and notify other colleges of ED/SCEA nature.</p>
<p>realalistically, how would stanford find out that i applied to harvard early as well? like they cant really find out...can they?</p>
<p>First of all, your counselor has to sign a form when you apply early, be it SCEA or ED. Thus, not only would it require a lack of morals on your part, your counselor would also have to be ethically unsensitive as well.</p>
<p>The consequences for when a school finds out you've done this are extremely serious. Not only is it almost 100% likely that both schools will reject you, or rescind their offers of admission, they will also notify all other schools that you've applied to. Additionally, some schools will see your counselor's lack of ethics as a reflection on the school, and be very wary to accepting anyone from your school for quite some time.</p>
<p>If you do choose to apply to both and somehow get your counselor to get along, you better be willing to go to a community college.</p>
<p>I would be very surprised if they didn't send each other lists of the names of early applicants.</p>