<p>I noticed that some schools (like Georgetown) have restrictive Early Action programs that don’t let you Early Decision anywhere. Does anyone know what happens to people who apply to, say, Georgetown and Early Decision at another university, and whether people get caught doing this?</p>
<p>Your GC needs to sign off on ED applications. Your asking for GTown docs later would be pretty fishy…</p>
<p>If you get caught they will probably end up rejecting you and maybe even telling the other school that you broke it.</p>
<p>I agree with barrk123. I heard of this happening to a student on CC earlier. He/She got rejected from both schools.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s about the extent of what two programs could do. You’d be essentially breaking the Terms of Agreement and would thus lose access to the service, so to speak.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the responses! 
That matches up with what I’ve heard so far as well. Is it also true that students can also be “blacklisted” and shared with other universities that the student may apply to regular decision?</p>
<p>I don’t believe that students get blacklisted, but high schools can. Adcoms rely heavily on GCs to serve as gatekeepers/enforcers and if the GC fails in this regard then the college’s trust is broken. All future applicants from that high school are likely to be viewed with a skeptical eye.</p>
<p>One purpose of having Regional adcoms is to establish relationships with high schools and foster trust with GCs. An adcom cannot personally know every applicant from their region but they certainly can, and should, know most GCs.</p>
<p>My understanding is some ED colleges do share names of accepted students.</p>