scea-what is princeton admissions thinking?

ray121988
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:53:07 +0000

“Who is going to apply to princeton ea when they can apply ea to harvard and yale and still apply to other public colleges.”

If you mean that one can apply to either Harvard EA or Yale EA plus applying simultaneously to a public school, then that is true, as long as you are referring to rolling admissions or regular admissions. However, the same IS true at Princeton.

From the Princeton Class of 2016 admission application instructions:

“A Single Choice Early Action Plan is offered by Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. This plan does not require a commitment to matriculate, and students may apply to other colleges under those colleges’ regular admission programs but not to another institution’s Early Action or Early Decision program.”

http://www.princeton.edu/admission/pdfs/PU_AppInstr_11_12.pdf

I myself was accepted to Loyola-Chicago and UIllinois under their respective rolling admissions programs while applying Early Decision to Princeton in the fall of 2006.