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<blockquote> <p>Does anyone know why California colleges don't offer ED/EA???<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>The various flavors of early admissions are basically gimmicks dreamed up by certain selective east coast schools as devices for sewing up some of the high-end students before the even more selective and prestigious schools could come along and snap them all up. UCs apparently just never felt a need to jump on that bandwagon. And now some of the top schools such as Harvard and Princeton are jumping off.</p>