Different Kinds of Legacies

NJDS
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:15:29 +0000

financial aid is purely need-based
there is no “winning” of scholarships unless you want one of the very few athletic scholarships that are really only available for star athletes who are basically among the best in the world
if you apply REA to stanford, you cannot apply to any other school ED, EA, or SCEA. the exceptions are public colleges that require early application for scholarships (only if notification is after a certain date [jan 1st i think]), colleges with rolling admission, and international colleges, and maybe 1 or 2 more exceptions
technically you could apply to several schools EA if u applied REA to stanford, but apparently this year (ive herd), commonapp will not let you send another application EA/ED/SCEA after you send stanford and it will not let you send an REA app to stanford after another EA/ED/SCEA app. something that is important to know is the honor code. it is taken very seriously at schools like stanford and its peers. they trust that you will not break the established rules. some college admissions counseling organizations/companies argue that they do talk to each other, but no one really knows.