<p>^ColeSprouse, Stanford has Restrictive Early Action, which means that you can’t apply <em>early</em> to other colleges (with certain exceptions spelled out on the Stanford admissions website, such as rolling-admissions colleges, and public colleges), but you can certainly apply regular decision anywhere you like because restrictive early action programs are non-binding. It’s really the best of all worlds for the applicant–especially if you get in in December! ; ) Then you’re in the position of being accepted at your first-choice school, while deliberating whether there’s any other college you still want to consider at that point. And there probably won’t be. : )</p>