Explain Early Action/early decision?

JennFolsom
Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:09:06 +0000

My daughter is looking at places like Purdue, Virginia Tech, places like those. She is very unlikely to go into heavy sciences or engineering. Can anyone explain how early action works? Can she use it for getting into a humanities major like education (just for example, not sure if it will be that for sure)? She is legacy at both Purdue and Virginia Tech with my hubby so that is partly why we were considering those. She is only in middle school so have time to figure it out all out. Hoping to find out most of my info online instead of spending thousands of dollars at the college planning companies, shocked how much my friends are spending! Where is a good explanation of the pros/cons? I’m not sure how many colleges she truly wants to apply to yet, but even with the search so far, we have only seen 12 that seem like that might be a true fit and looks promising majors,location wise for her and not so crazy hard to get into. We are not looking at anything ivy league or UCLA types.

Jenn