<p>Question: Will submitting Regular Decision applications now hurt a student who has applied Early Action to Harvard?</p>
<p>WHAT DID “THE DEAN” SAY?</p>
<p>See: <a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/can-harvard-ea-aspirant-submit-regular-decision-applications-now/”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/can-harvard-ea-aspirant-submit-regular-decision-applications-now/</a></p>
<p>I feel like this doesn’t answer the question: Does the college you ED’d, EA’d, REA’d at, or whatever, see that you have submitted other applications if/ when you do before your results come out? I have heard by a college admissions officer at Cornell that they do. </p>
<p>Colleges will NOT see where else students are applying (or when) via the Common App. What you might have heard at Cornell is that it’s the financial aid forms that you have to worry about. Colleges CAN see where else you’ve had your financial aid forms sent. This is why experts always suggest listing all your colleges in alphabetical order. That way, the college folks can’t make assumptions (often false, in fact) that the top school on the list is your first choice and the bottom one your last. Savvy counselors often suggest that some admission and funding decisions may be based on how the ranking of your list in interpreted, which is why alpha order makes sense. </p>
<p>In my years of reading applications, I would also, just occasionally, see lists on an applicant’s high school transcript showing where other transcripts had been sent. So it would be wise to check with your school’s guidance office to make sure that this practice doesn’t exist. But with more and more schools using Naviance–or other electronic means–to submit transcripts, this once-rare problem from my own folder-reading days is even rarer now.</p>