<p>Specifically before the application decision is revealed, can they find out if I applied to two schools early, the other being a private and thus not allowed?</p>
<p>if they find out any time before NSO, they reserve the right to revoke your admission offer and/or cancel your matriculation</p>
<p>stanford takes the honor code very seriously, so if a student did violate that simple rule, i would suggest he/she not attend stanford.</p>
<p>don’t you have some college counselor who overseas this?</p>
<p>that person should get fired…</p>
<p>P.S. you’re going to get screwed over</p>
<p>If you applied to both Stanford and Yale, you are obviously a ■■■■■ and I can’t imagine you being admitted to either.</p>
<p>I’m just wondering if they can find out BEFORE they RELEASE decisions (i.e. in the admission process), not afterwards. It has nothing to do with if they have already made a decision and told me that I am accepted. I know it sounds weird; just help me out here.</p>
<p>student314, I think I know what you’re saying here.</p>
<p>Here’s my story:</p>
<p>In August-september, I looked at the Stanford REA website, and at that time an exception was that you could apply to any college EA if you had to meet a scholarship deadline. So basically, I applied to USC.</p>
<p>Later, I found that I could also apply to Michigan because you could apply to any public. This I found by calling and then emailing Stanford admissions, not checking the website. </p>
<p>So I go back to check the website on Dec. 10 to see anything about an earlier release, and glancing over the exceptions, I see that you could not actually apply to any private university, because they updated the site (pretty late too as a matter of fact).</p>
<p>4 hours later, I’m rejected, dismayed, and left wondering…did they know I (although truthfully an accident) applied to a school in direct conflict with their REA policy, causing the rejection?</p>
<p>Yeah that’s exactly my case. There’s this valedictorian from my school who applied to both Yale and Stanford EA (don’t know if it was a mistake) and was rejected from both last year. (He got into both MIT and Princeton so it doesn’t really matter). It sucks because now I’m not sure what would have happened. I doubt they’ll tell me anything if I call them up. I suppose it’s good though because if they found out later on, regardless of whether it was a mistake, we would have been expelled had we been accepted.</p>
<p>I called them before decisions came out and explained all of it, my name was then taken down and I was told to wait for decisions to come out, and they would sort it out. I was going to be fine if I had been accepted, I just don’t know if that affected my decision however.</p>