Rolling Schools/Safeties

robinsuesanders
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:56:29 +0000

However, IMO that is just nuts to say that one cannot apply EA to another school while waiting for an ED decision from Brown. That puts a student in the disadvantageous position of potentially getting turned down by Brown and having no decisions in hand.



No, the student is not in a disadvantageous position just because Brown turns the ED student down. While Brown says you can’t apply other places EA and ED there, they do allow both rolling applications and RD applications which can be submitted anytime during the cycle. So the student might not have an acceptance in hand at the time of the ED denial, that doesn’t mean they’ll have no other options.

Now in my original response, I said I wasn’t sure whether you could apply ED at one place and EA at one or more other colleges. I thought it would be “ok”, but I also advised that an ED applicant needs to read and thoroughly understand what the ED conditions at the chosen school are.

Seems to me that by telling students they can’t apply EA elsewhere if they are applying ED at Brown, what Brown really accomplishes is preventing ED students from comparing Brown’s FA to other EA places FA in order to decide whether the Brown FA package is acceptable or not. [Of course, with Brown’s aid, this doesn’t seem like it would be an issue.]

And it is known that if a student applies ED to more than one school, the all the schools are likely to rescind the offer of admission if the student gets caught. That might well happen if Brown found out that an ED student applied elsewhere EA as well I suppose.