<p>Why does everyone apply to everyschool EA?
You'll have a better chance of getting in and you finish it early
so why wouldnt anyone apply EA???</p>
<p>Because they're lazy/miss the deadline?</p>
<p>I'm applying EA to every school that offers it (only 1 or 2....)</p>
<p>I didn't apply early anywhere because I felt I would have a better chance of being accepted to the schools I was applying to if I had excellent grades senior year with a much tougher schedule than my early years of high school.</p>
<p>Because many schools do not have EA but have ED instead. And you can only apply to one school ED.</p>
<p>It was definitely laziness for me.</p>
<p>If everyone applied EA then it wouldnt give anyone a better chance of getting in...</p>
<p>Most normal people dont know EA exists(very few of ppl in my class even know ED exists). If they knew they would prob apply to it, as most college applicants dont even have a clue about the 'advantages/disadvantages' of when to apply</p>
<p>Most schools don't even have an EA option. Many students haven't made up their minds about college apps by the EA deadline. Many students also haven't written their essays, gotten their reccs, taken their SATs by the EA deadline.</p>
<p>Really many kids in the US are scrambling in their last minute college searches, they don't have time for something like EA. Plus they're lazy.</p>
<p>Well, I don't know if they're lazy, so much as not entirely focused on the college application process like many of the kids on CC. That's all.</p>
<p>Procrastination. Laziness. Lack of awareness.</p>
<p>There you go, I just put it in a nutshell</p>
<p>EA isn't all that common of an option; among the elites, binding ED is more common - that's a tool that should be used with caution.</p>
<p>Many colleges have rolling admissions, i.e., applications are processed as received and a decision sent in a matter of weeks. (This is more common at state schools and colleges that are more formula-based in their admissions.) I highly recommend that students apply to at least one rolling admissions school they like as a safety. By early fall, the student will have one acceptance at a school he/she likes; that can take some stress out of the rest of the admissions process. (Students admitted early in the process may have a better shot at merit awards or other financial aid, too.)</p>
<p>Early apps also need a strong transcript after Jr year, i.e., the applicant doesn't need the benefit of strong senior year grades....</p>
<p>well I guess if some people apply SCEA, they wouldn't apply EA. Also EA has some restrictions (like Georgetown's)</p>
<p>Well in my opinion enough elite colleges have EA for it to be a vital part of the admissions process, from MIT to UIUC etc.</p>
<p>I'd say procrastination and not liking early deadlines, though I, too, think that EA is the obvious thing to do. Who WOULDN'T want to know if they're into some college by December?</p>
<p>Can someone add to the list of the top schools that provide Early Action:</p>
<p>SCEA:
Stanford
Yale </p>
<p>ED:
Princeton
U Penn
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth</p>
<p>EA:
MIT
Caltech</p>
<p>Add UNC-CH to EA (it's called "early notification", but it's the same thing).
And Georgetown to EA (or SCEA, even though it's not called that, they have their own crazy req's).</p>
<p>SCEA:
Stanford
Yale </p>
<p>ED:
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
U Penn
Williams</p>
<p>EA:
Caltech
MIT</p>
<p>Adding Boston College to EA</p>
<p>SCEA:
Stanford
Yale</p>
<p>ED:
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
U Penn
Williams</p>
<p>EA:
Boston College
Caltech
MIT</p>