<p>Due to S2’s need for financial aid, he will NOT be applying ED anywhere. However, there are 3 or 4 schools on his current list that allow EA. I am thinking he should apply to all that he can EA. Are there any con’s to applying EA? I did read one CC opinion that some schools can be more conservative with aid during EA.</p>
<p>Be aware that some schools only allow you to apply to one school EA or ED.</p>
<p>Cons to applying EA: Not enough time to do the application properly; you might want the committee to consider first semester grades; if rejected, everyone has to live with that rejection for 3 months until some good news comes.</p>
<p>There’s no reason to be conservative with FA during EA season–you don’t have to give an answer until the spring when you’ve seen all the FA packages, right?</p>
<p>Ha! My son thought he couldn’t apply to Georgetown EA just because he applied to Brown ED. Wrong-O!! Many applicants did and I’m sorry he didn’t. G’town later messed up his application b/c he withdrew his EA (long story). In any case, DEFINITELY apply EA. Do not believe it when they say you cannot apply EA elsewhere if you apply ED.</p>
<p>The one negative you forgot to mention is that many colleges that offer EA, including Georgetown, do not accept many students. That still isn’t a reason why not apply EA, because even with a deferral, the message to that college is that you really liked them.</p>
<p>The downsides are very few. It will make you stop procrastinating, if nothing else.</p>
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<p>True–well worth it.</p>
<p>Limabeans, i’m a senior and planning on applying to an ED school which means i’m technically not allowed to apply to BC or Georgetown EA. How do the colleges find out if you’ve broken those rules?</p>
<p>Limabeans,
Remember some schools are single choice early action so you cannot apply to any ore school early (EA or ED).
Bigapple, you will have to read your ED agreement. You may be able to apply EA to other schools as long as you withdraw them if you are accepted ED.</p>
<p>We just attended Georgetown’s info session. They specifically said no ED to other schools if applying EA to Georgetown.</p>
<p>My son was not allowed to apply to Georgetown EA because he was applying to Northwestern ED. The restriction was not on NU’s part, but on Georgetown’s part.</p>
<p>Georgetown may have tightened up its rules, but my recollection from when my son applied two years ago was that you could only apply to other EA schools not to ED schools. Ellemenope has listed all the possible downsides, but for both my kids their grades weren’t that different senior year, and I believe the first quarter grades were sent anyway. It definitely provided a much needed push in getting all the Common App essays written. My kids didn’t get rejections, but I think the deferrals were a bit of a wake up call for my oldest. For my younger son an unexpected acceptance at a reach meant that he was much more optimistic about the rest of his list and he dropped a safety and a match he hadn’t been that enthusiastic about.</p>
<p>Georgetown is one of the schools on the son’s EA list. But as long as you’re not applying ED somewhere else, I don’t think they have a restriction against applying to others EA.</p>
<p>Another question: Do any schools use Common App for EA? Or is common app only used for applying regular decision?</p>
<p>Go for it…DD applied to two schools EA and one rolling and had all of those acceptances well before Christmas (including the school she eventually attended). It made her senior year so much more pleasant.</p>
<p>She really ONLY wanted to apply to those three schools…and we (stupidly in retrospect) insisted she apply to a school close to home (these three were far away) just in case she changed her mind. So she added that school…and a mega reach. It was silly.</p>
<p>If your kiddo is applying EA to schools…have the kiddo just get all of the applications done NOW…no sense in waiting…he’ll beat the GC rush and will have that application process all done while his friends are doing this all over the holidays.</p>
<p>I think ED 2 is an often overlooked strategy. I had a spreadsheet for my kids’ schools showing which ones offered ED 2 and what were the dates. They had their applications to their ED 2 schools in so that if their ED 1’s hadn’t come in, they could have gone ED 2 with a few clucks of a mouse. I’m surprised ED 2 doesn’t get discussed more – a lot of good schools offer it. Mine would have ED 2’d at Kenyon College and Bryn Mawr. I seem to recall Brandeis and Smith and Macalester also had ED 2 options.</p>
<p>D applied EA to Colorado College and Lawrence at the same time she applied ED to Wellesley - those programs weren’t restrictive. However, S could not apply EA to Gtown at the sane time he was applying to NU ED. It absolutely is a restriction on Gtown’s part. I think it’s unfortunate, but oh well.</p>
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<p>That made me chuckle…please don’t edit it!!!</p>
<p>The ED 2 strategy is a good one…but can you apply to TWO ED 2 schools at a time? I thought only one.</p>
<p>Cbug – Col College and Lawrence used Common App. Gtown doesn’t but that has nothing to go with their EA program – that’s just their quirk. I shudder to think what Gtown’s acceptance rate would be if they did go Common App!</p>
<p>No, you can’t apply two ED 2’s at once. Remember I’m talking twins :-)</p>
<p>S would have done ED 2 at Kenyon, D at Bryn Mawr. Clearer?!</p>
<p>Sure, there is a good reason for not applying EA: no interest to attend or not strong enough to be considered for EA.</p>
<p>Thanks, coolweather – no one would have ever figured out that not wanting to attend might be a reason not to apply ;-). I’m kind of old school – everything on the list needs to be a place kid would be fine attending.</p>
<p>D2 said Georgetown is off the list because of not using common app. But they still get their fair share of applicants.</p>
<p>bigapple,</p>
<p>I think the reason why my son moved his Georgetown application from EA to RD was specifically because he applied to Brown ED. But, they totally, totally messed up his application file because he did that. Kept telling him he didn’t have essays in, but he did with the ‘submission confirmed’. Told him he needed to interview, although he did. He responded to every email they sent as well as called them, only to be told to write. (And everytime after he emailed them, he’d always get a response that they’d get back to him in a timely manner.) In the end, they didn’t even notify him about a rejection until nearly mid-April, when he called them. Do you really think they have their act together? Blah!</p>
<p>I’m not usually the one to advocate saying, “Oops, didn’t know”, but do you really think Gtown’'ll find out if you apply ED elsewhere?</p>