<p>Hi all,
Hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful winter weather. </p>
<p>At a dinner party, one parent talked about her daughter was rejected by Standford last Friday and they are waiting for result from u Chicago on Monday. I realized that her child applied early to BOTH Standford ( restricted early action ) and u Chicago ( early action)</p>
<p>I thought you can not apply to early action to both U Chicago and Standford ? Did I misunderstand the rule?
Isn’t it illegal to apply to both colleges for early ? </p>
<p>Stanford’s rule is that applying EA to it means you agree not to apply EA or ED elsewhere with exception for EA at public universities, which UChicago is not. Thus, applying to UChicago violated the Stanford EA agreement. The penalty for doing so would be rejection. Since rejection has occurred, there is nothing else to be done with Stanford.</p>
<p>UChicago allows applicants to apply EA or ED elsewhere and thus the existing application to it is valid.</p>
<p>You friend’s DD did violate the rules for EA for Stanford, though not for UCh. Schools do not generally check on these things THe GC should have caught this, but clearly did not. For ED, certain schools share acceptance lists, and will flush students noted as accepted ED elsewhere and notify those who are caught violating ED rules, but I’ve never heard of any process checking on EA status. </p>
<p>Whether Chicago would penalize someone who violated another schools SCEA policies is a question that only the Admissions Office at UC can answer. I have no idea what they would say if any one reported the issue, including whether it would be addressed if the student called and said they inadvertently did this and was just now made aware of his transgression. </p>