<p>Cangel has no reason to feel badly about applying ED to Dartmouth and EA to two other schools. Here is an excerpt from Dartmouth Admission Website. You can see that Cangel is playing by the book:</p>
<p>Early Decision</p>
<p>If you have selected Dartmouth as a clear first choice, you may request an Early Decision on your application. Applying as an Early Decision candidate involves a commitment to matriculate at Dartmouth if admitted; candidates who are admitted under the Early Decision Plan may not initiate new applications and must withdraw any other applications. It is a violation of the plan for you to be an Early Decision candidate at two institutions at the same time. Early Decision applications are judged according to the same criteria as those in regular decision. Often senior year grades and scores do not reach us in time to affect the Early Decision process. In such cases, school records and testing through the junior year are used.</p>
<p>I am sorry. I forgot that Cangel is the OP here, not Futureadcom. No, Cangel is not the one with the problem. It is Futureadcom and son, as it appears that the ED school where he applied does not permit concurrent EA apps and he applied both EA and ED in violation of those rules. I believe I did tell Cangel that she has no problems. It is that post from Futureadcom that I find problematic, and if the schools discover that the boy did not follow the rules in combining types of apps, he could find himself in admissions limbo. That is certainly the right of the school.</p>
<p>Yeah, paranoia was at work with that part of the process too. DD's GC ic very good, but we read that statement from Dartmouth a couple of times! The D applied to 2 rolling admit schools - big state U and small local LAC - I'm proud to say she was 100% on her admissions, although the selectivity index among them is a little wide! ;)</p>
<p>Dartmouth does not address the issue of Early Action or any other non binding early program. But if you look at the Princeton website regarding their Early decision policies, it does specifically address these situations as does Harvard and Yale in their Single Choice Early Action program. It is important to understand the restriction of these early programs. It was hard for me to get them through my son's head this year, as he could not understand why he could not just apply everywhere early if there was no binding agreement. He did understand binding ED but not single choice EA. nor could he believe that some ED schools permit simultaneous EA apps. It is very confusing.</p>
<p>LOL. I actually find SCEA guidelines clearer than ED, since they make clear that there must only one EA app, as the terms Single Choice indicate. As Cangel experienced, some schools can be ED and still permit multiple other apps, but SCEA does not. That's why Harvard went from EA to SCEA.</p>
<p>I will be honest...I really am not even playing dumb...that's what is sad. We actually are dumb!</p>
<p>But all is OK, because he has been deferred by the two EAs. I will be sure no one else in the history of his high school makes the same mistake!</p>
<p>And marite, you are very correct in that SCEA is much clearer. My son was planning to do EA to Harvard, submitted everything but the application, and then realized he couldn't do it.</p>
<p>There is no use blaming the policies, but son did submit the ED application far earlier, and actually forgot it said he couldnt do EA. Anyways, enough excuses.</p>
<p>Not trying to prolong the thread, but if futureadcom was deferred by these ill-advised EAs, doesn't that in effect convert those to regular admission applications? Does he have to withdraw, or only if he is accepted ED to the other school?</p>
<p>I don't understand why futureadcom would wait until the EA decisions are done. The student is obligated to attend the ED school. Withdrawing from the EA schools immediately is the only course of action that makes sense. Why potentially take a spot from someone else who applied to the EA schools and may now get deferred because futureadcom's childs might be accepted EA (with absolutely no intention of attending)? I can see making the mistake...but to let it go on and not address it is very wrong and unfair to other students.</p>
<p>Cangel, the student has already been admitted ED. Yes, the EA deferrals now turn into RD apps....</p>
<p>As long as I've been here you'd think I'd know the answer to this question, but I don't. What about rolling admission schools and schools that require you to apply by October to be considered for a scholarship? How do those work with ED and SCEA? Someone asked me this recently and I just told them to call the 'early' school and ask. Does anyone know? Does it depend on the individual school (as most everything does)?</p>
<p>Garland, Actually, the Princeton Admission website implies that it's okay to apply elsewhere so long as other apps are withdrawn once the student is admitted ED to Princeton. From the Princeton Admission website's FAQ:</p>
<p>What is the Early Decision application option?</p>
<p>Students who determine that Princeton is the college they would most like to attend may submit applications by November 1, to which we will respond with decisions by mid-December. By applying early, students are committing to enrolling at Princeton if offered admission and must withdraw applications they may have submitted to other colleges.</p>
<p>"Early Decision applicants may not apply under Early Decision or Early Action plans at any other college or university (but may submit Regular Decision applications elsewhere)."</p>
<p>I cut that out of the instructions for Princeton's application. The quote that you have, Marite, refers to the RD applications.</p>