Last weekend, I submitted my BC supplement and payment saying that I would apply Early Action. I did not realize that this was restricted, meaning if you apply to BC early, you can't apply Early Decision anywhere else. I really want to apply Early Decision to Amherst though. I think I'm going to call the BC admission office and see if i can change my submission. Does anyone think this will work? What would happen if I just ignored the BC restriction?
When you apply early decision to a school, you are saying that you would definitely go to that school if you got accepted. Isn't that what Amherst rules are? I would think you would not be able to apply ED if you were putting in applications elsewhere. Please check that info out.
That is why BC would not allow you to apply EA if you apply ED somewhere else.
I would call BC and ask for your application to be put into the regular applicant pool if you are planning on applying ED to Amherst.
When you apply early decision to a school, you are saying that you would definitely go to that school if you got accepted. Isn't that what Amherst rules are? I would think you would not be able to apply ED if you were putting in applications elsewhere. Please check that info out.
Not quite. You can apply only to one ED school, because it is restrictive. However, if it does not violate the other schools' rules, you can apply EA and/or RD to other schools as well. The caveat is that if you're accepted to your ED school, you must withdraw your other applications.
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I was also wondering if it might be okay to just pretend it was a mistake to check off the early action box, and play if off that way.
No. It doesn't really put you in the best light, does it? "Why should we accept this guy? He can't even follow simple instructions!"
Call BC and ask that they change your application to RD. This is not a problem; happens all the time.
I had to do the same thing yesterday. Up until at least last month, BC's website had an entire page dedicated to the fact that if you are applying EA, you don't need to have Subject tests at that time. I found out that they no longer do this, so I had to call and change the application.
Hi Tromboneplayer91! I was planning to do the exact same thing, until I found out the BC had restrictive EA. I am almost done with my ED app to Amherst. I hope we can both get in, lemme know when you find out.
There's technically a chance they wouldn't find out but if you're applying ED to Amherst, I'd imagine you'd have to sign an ED agreement stating that you aren't applying anywhere else so if you were found to have violated that agreement, there'd be severe consequences. Plus, colleges are in touch with each other, they probably have their own methods of making sure people aren't violating the ED rules.
The Common App ED agreement just states that you only have one ED agreement pending, but you can apply wherever else you like, as long as it's not ED. Just playing devil's advocate here, I agree it would be unwise to try to be sneaky and fake the schools out, as ramifications if caught would presumably be undesirable.
Yep, I do agree with you--of course someone could potentially sneak their way through the system. Have heard several stories of people who have done so and later caught whose high schools later got blacklisted by the college in the following years which sucks...the school shouldn't have to pay for one student's mistake.
the school shouldn't have to pay for one student's mistake.
First, it's not a "mistake" - it's a deliberate act done to game the system.
Second, the school is complicit in this deliberate act, since the GC has to send out the transcripts by the appropriate deadlines. The GC then knows that the student is attempting to violate BC's restrictions by applying to BC EA and Amherst ED. That's why the high school may be blacklisted - it has violated the colleges' trust.
I would advise not being sneaky though. BC didn't give me any problem at all about it they just changed my application to regular decision, it was completely painless. Also, I disagree that it is partially the schools fault, my guidance counselor didn't know about the restrictions on BC, so if I had been sneaky, then it would've been my fault if there were any ramifications for it.
