Early Notification re SCEA or REA

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<p>So this is the text under the SCEA agreement that my first choice school is giving me:

I may not apply to any other college or university under any type of early action, early decision, or early notification program, but may apply to any number of schools under a regular or rolling admission program.

Now, there’s another school I’m applying to that has a very informal early notification program. It is not listed in the Common App as one of the decision plans. To apply through the early notification at this second school, I just have to mark ‘regular decision’ and send in my materials by 12/1/2011</p>

<p>So my question is, am I allowed to apply to this early notification under this REA agreement? And if I’m not and I do, what happens? Third, would this agreement be more favorable, or not?

If you are a Single-Choice Early Action applicant, you may apply to another institution’s early admission program as follows:</p>

<p>You may apply to any college’s non-binding rolling admission program.
You may apply to any public institution in your home state at any time provided that admission is non-binding.
You may apply to another college’s Early Decision II program, but only if the notification of admission occurs after January 1. If you are admitted through another college’s Early Decision II binding program, you must withdraw your application.
You may apply to any institution outside of the United States at any time.

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<p>Why do something that requires a lawyer to decipher? Or something sufficiently ambiguous that it can be interpreted one way to suit your needs, or another to be in violation of the spirit of the SCEA agreement?</p>

<p>“very informal early notification program” still reads like “early notification program”</p>

<p>My advise is don’t go there. In any case that second school is not your first choice. Or if you must, ask the first school.</p>