<p>Just wondering, what Ivy league schools will let me apply Early Decision while still allowing me to apply Early Action to University of Chicago?</p>
<p>I already know Harvard, Yale, and Princeton don't have ED. And Brown ED won't let me EA anywhere else.</p>
<p>So anyone know the info for Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, and/or Columbia?</p>
<p>You can apply to any school you want ED--but then, since ED is binding, should you be accepted ED, you would then withdraw all other apps, INCLUDING any EA apps.</p>
<p>^thanks for your response. just to clarify, i know certain schools don't allow you to apply ED to them if you're already applying EA elsewhere.</p>
<p>so my questions is which ones?</p>
<p>and i guess vice versa, if i apply ED anywhere, I can't apply EA to Georgetown.</p>
<p>You're thinking of this backwards. You should apply ED to a school if it's your certain #1 choice (and if you understand the financial implications of an ED app.) Once you've applied ED to your number #1 choice, you may or may not be able to apply EA elsewhere, but in any case it would just be a back up application since you are committed to attending should you get into your #1 choice ED school. So the question isn't "where can I apply ED if I apply EA to UChicago?" It's more properly, "I'm applying ED to my Favorite School. Where else can I apply EA as a backup option in case I don't get accepted?"</p>
<p>^haha thanks for the responses. i think i'm facing the dilemma some of my peers on CC are facing. the thing is we've got first choices that don't offer ED and are extremely selective. probability says we won't get in. </p>
<p>so i'm considering this: rather than hold out for a dream school which will probably end up rejecting me anyway, why not go out and try my chances at another school i'd be almost as happy with (and "almost as happy" can be defined here as "feeling exuberant, miraculous, amazingly wonderful, fantastic, etc."). Especially b/c all of these so-called "second-choice" schools are also extremely competitive and the only way I might have a fighting chance would be if I apply ED to them.</p>
<p>So yes, it's not "I'm applying ED to my favorite school", it's more "Rather than holding out for my favorite school, let me go ahead and apply ED to a school that's easily my second-favorite b/c 2 RD rejections would suck a lot worse than 1 ED acceptance and never getting the chance to see if I would have made it into my dream school".</p>
<p>But at the same time I would like to apply to some "backups", or more correctly, other schools that I'm also pretty passionate about (I LOVE UChicago) that have higher acceptance rates if I apply early.</p>
<p>Tactically speaking, you make an excellent point. My son decided last year to apply ED to one of several "dream schools" because he didn't want to give up the benefits of an ED app just to play some impossible odds at a similarly dreamy school. He got in. He's convinced he's in the right place... as it turns out. (I think if often turns out like that. ;) )</p>
<p>i have a classmate who is applying to columbia ED and uchicago EA. same boat as you. hope this helps!</p>
<p>just a note: i don't think colleges would like it if you did this..i mean it takes away from the ED a lot. but columbia says that you can do this, though it also says that it does not recommend it. ****</p>
<p>There is dream and there is reality. My friend's son applied to UPenn for ED and U Chicago for EA. Both parents went to UPenn business school. He was rejected at Penn and accepted at Chicago. Disappointment at first, but Chicago is really a better fit for him.</p>