<p>I’m a rising senior and I am considering applying ED/EA/SECA to a UC/Cal Poly/.something else and am terribly confused about this process.
Please help. Thank you.</p>
<p>1.How does this work?
2. Are there advantages?
3. Are there disadvantages?
4. When is the last date to submit ACT/SAT/AP/SAT Subject Tests
5. If you get rejected via this process, are you still eligible to apply for regular admission?
6. Are certain majors easier to get into through EA/ED?</p>
<p>Thank you for the information. Advice is greatly appreciated…</p>
<p>1) ED is binding; if they accept you, you promise to attend. You can only apply ED to one school. Depending on the rules of the particular school, you may be able to apply EA to other schools. (Brown, for example, does not permit you to apply EA if you apply to them ED.)</p>
<p>EA is non-binding. If they accept you, you can attend or not, and you have until May 1 to decide. Depending on the rules of the particular school, you can apply to other schools EA, and a school ED. (Georgetown and Boston College, for example, do not allow you to apply EA to them if you’ve applied ED anywhere, but you may apply to as many EA schools as you’d like.)</p>
<p>SCEA is Single-Choice EA. It is non-binding, but you may apply only to that school early. You may not apply to any ED school or to any other EA school. (Yale and Stanford, for example, are SCEA.)</p>
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<li><p>and 3. There are multiple threads on this in these forums. Search for them.</p></li>
<li><p>Depends on the school. Check their websites to see their own deadlines.</p></li>
<li><p>There are two options other than acceptance in EA/ED/SCEA. You can be rejected outright, or you can be deferred. Deferral means that your application will be reconsidered during the regular round. If you are rejected outright, you cannot reapply for the same academic year.</p></li>
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<p>When you have your college list, look up the rules that they have for applying. The websites will have the types of admissions that they offer. Some schools offer ED where usually in exchange for your promise that you will go there , you will get extra consideration on your app and your answer early. You are permitted to have only one ED app out there. You also are supposed to cancel any other application once you are accepted ED. There are some schools that do not want you to apply EA either if you apply ED. </p>
<p>EA is when you apply to a school early, get the response early, but you are not bound to go there. You have until May 1 to make the decision and you can apply to other schools. If a school has a Single Choice EA program (SCEA), you are only permitted to apply to that school early. You cannot apply EA and ED in that case. Other EA schools that are not single choice may not allow you to apply ED if you have applied EA to them.</p>
<p>Confusing? Yeah, I agree. You do have to read those apps carefully because you will be signing off on those agreement when you apply to such school and get yourself in trouble if you do not honor these agreements</p>
<p>Some schools have more than one ED date. They have ED1 and ED2. ED1 apps usually have a due date in November. ED2 has a later date, sometimes January or even February, but the school will let you know before the regular decision date whether you are in, out or deferred. ED2 is often used by kids for their second choice school after being deferred by their first ED choice. Kids who could not make the first ED deadline may also use ED2.</p>
<p>whoa, wait a minute-lets clear something up-there are NO EA applications for the UC’s! You have the month of Nov to fill out your application, period.
Now private colleges are another matter and the info given above is correct.</p>