As I understand it, If my son is applying to Yale restrictive early action, he can also apply to a public university early action. He is thinking of applying to Georgia Institute of Technology early decision (since it is a public) and Yale REA. Am I correct it thinking this is allowed? Does anyone have experience with this?
Yes my son did the same a couple of years ago. It is allowed.
This is what is on Yale’s website:
"Applying to Other Colleges and Universities
If you are a Single-Choice Early Action applicant to Yale, you may apply to another institution’s early admission program as follows:
You may apply to any college’s non-binding rolling admission program.
You may apply to any public institution at any time, provided that admission is non-binding.
You may apply to another college’s Early Decision II program, but only if the notification of admission occurs after January 1. If you are admitted through another college’s Early Decision II binding program, you must withdraw your application from Yale.
You may apply to another college’s Early Action II program.
You may apply to any institution outside of the United States at any time."
If Georgia Institute of Technology is a public university, then yes he can apply to both early.
https://admissions.yale.edu/single-choice-early-action says that “You may apply to any public institution at any time, provided that admission is non-binding.” Since GT has early action (not early decision) that is non-binding according to http://admission.gatech.edu/first-year/deadlines-fees , you can apply to both Yale SCEA and GT EA.
Note that GT requires EA application for consideration for merit scholarships.
But Early Decision is binding.
Thank you all! I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. He also will apply to University of Florida at about the same time, but there regular deadline is November 1st
You’re good. It is very typical for SCEA applicants (i.e. HYPS) to also apply EA to some of the public Ivies.
There’s some subtle nuances in how the SCEA, REA and EA rules at various schools interact. The key thing is to always always check the rules for BOTH schools. Just because it is OK for Yale rules does not guarantee that it iwill be OK for Georgia Tech.
As an example (and since your kid might be an engineer), MIT has completely unrestricted EA. So your kid could apply EA to MIT and MIT would also let your kid apply early (regardless of ED/SCEA/REA/EA) to every other college that exists. But that would be a problem for Yale SCEA.
MIT says that EA applicants must abide by the rules of any other EA school that they apply to.
What I’m trying to figure out is what he wants to do where he feels that Yale and GT are both good options. Their strengths don’t tend to overlap.
I was thinking that too @eyemgh ^
Lots of overlap for techy kids.
My son’s 2nd choice school was GaTech (instate). He is happily exploring math, physics, comp sci, psych etc at Yale. He would prob have done same at GaTech. Both terrific places for techy kids.
The OP is not asking for opinions about the schools, just checking that both can be applied to in the EA round. That question has been answered conclusively. Closing thread.