<p>What would the consequences be if I were two apply to two school for Early Admission and get accepted into both of them?</p>
<p>1) if discovered both will rescind you and you’ll find yourself with no college acceptances in May of your Senior year.</p>
<p>2) your guidance counselor should be fired for being an imbecile. He/She has to sign off on any ED you submit – if they submit two, and you get caught, it’s highly likely your school will then be blacklisted. Future applicants from your school will be SOL.</p>
<p>But the very fact that you are asking this question begs the reader to wonder why you feel entitled to take a benefit (early notification) but hope to skirt the parameter (only on ED). It calls into grave question how much of a jerk you might really be, to be blunt.</p>
<p>Well I wasn’t expecting that. Anyway if it’s against the rules then I won’t do it. It just that I couldn’t decide between two schools and was only wondering. Thank you, T26E4, for the post though. Now I know what NOT to do :P</p>
<p>I think T26E4 was being a little hysterical there. The question was what if I apply to two school[s] for Early Admission, not what if I apply to two schools for Single Choice Early admission.</p>
<p>This is Harvard. If you apply to Harvard Single Choice Early Action, and apply to Yale SCEA at the same time, or MIT EA, and either school figures out what you have done, then you will be rejected at both schools (and rescinded if either has accepted you). Whether they tell anyone else about it is more speculative. I tend to think they wouldn’t, but it would be amazingly stupid to take that risk. Any other selective college that found out about it would probably decide you were of bad character and reject you, although some might give you a shot at redemption. I think there’s little question that your school’s guidance counselor would lose credibility with any college that found out about this. (Which is why the guidance counselors police these requirements pretty carefully). </p>
<p>However, not every college with an EA program is like Harvard or Yale (or Stanford, or Princeton). You can apply EA simultaneously to MIT, Georgetown, Caltech, and Chicago, and if they find out about it they will say, “That’s nice, those are all good choices.” You won’t get rescinded or rejected anywhere, because you won’t have violated any of their rules.</p>
<p>You can apply Early Decision to Columbia or Duke and EA to MIT and Chicago, no problem. But if you apply ED anywhere, you can’t apply EA to Georgetown (and some others), because their rules prohibit it. And you can’t apply ED to two schools, since then you would be committed to attend both if they both accepted you, and that’s a no-no.</p>
<p>I think T2 was responding to the title of the thread, not to the text. @OP The two are very different; make sure you know what the schools you’re applying to are offering. Early decision means that you will attend if admitted. Early action leaves you free to decide in April.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for the posts! You’ve all been very helpful.</p>