<p>@North and Tizil thank you for explaining them all! So does that mean i can EA to n number of colleges ?
@Tizil I would really appeciate if you could do that if I dont find the books till then. I really appreciate the thought and ur kindness ! :-)</p>
<p>LOL. TiT cant go down because of the fact we talk college 24/7 </p>
<p>Crystal, u sure?
You can order them from amazon.
It may have the dollar currency priced, but then amazon is reliable as well.</p>
<p>Tizil, dude, we have just started talking about college. Waiting for the CA to reopen ! 
am sure it’ll be a total chaos.
TBBT fans are getting extinct day by day.</p>
<p>Crystal-
EA- Early action.
SCEA- single choice early action.
ED- early decision (legally binding for you to enroll ASAP)
If you SCEA at one, you cannot EA to others, and the name says it all.
Hope it helps.</p>
<p>While doing SCEA at some of the colleges, it is possible to apply under an early non-binding program at any public university. For example, Stanford allows this. I’m not too sure about HYP though.</p>
<p>@rew I have some problems in ordering them online from amazon at the moment but I might be able to order them in a month or two not too sure… Thanks for clearing the ea, ed and scea ! :D</p>
<p>Yep.
EA to many colleges 
as long as its ONLY EA-ing and not ED or scea.</p>
<p>And il be damned for Tizil trumped my post with cool green/red font.</p>
<p>Not cool bro, not cool</p>
<p>^haha. Thats how tizil rolls. :p</p>
<p>@north thanks! So that means I can EA for a couple of colleges! but I dont get the use of ED and SCEA … I mean do people actually apply ed and scea and are there any benefits of ed and scea?</p>
<p>@tizil haha thanks for making your post colorful (the ea, ed and scea one :P)</p>
<p>ED helps demonstrating that your REALLY interested in the college.
I mean for one, your applying early and your committing to attending so they know you want it so desperately.</p>
<p>SCEA is just Stanford and Princetons way of being mean.
Period.</p>
<p>Yep. Loads of people apply under ED and SCEA. You have some advantage under ED in that the college knows they’re your first choice and since yield rates are important to them, this may pay a role in your admission. Notice that the acceptance rates are higher for the ED round than the RD round. The question whether SCEA has any advantage over RD is very debatable. Even though the acceptance rates are higher in the SCEA round, it may be argued that the applicant pool consists largely of hooked applicants(recruited athletes, legacies etc.), hence making the pool highly self-selective. The final statement from the admission officers themselves is that there is no significant advantage or disadvantage in applying SCEA. If the school is your first choice, you must go ahead and apply SCEA. However, if you think you could use the extra time till the RD deadline and improve your application any further, you must do RD.</p>
<p>@north and idream thanks again for replying to my question . One last question for the night which is for example if I apply ED to harvard… can I apply to any other college non - ivy like colgate or berkley…
I am pretty sure the answer is no but just confirming :P</p>
<p>idream, how are your essays coming along.
I got 3 questions for yer.
1- your college list?
2- are you an American citizen?
3- are you applying for FA?</p>
<p>Your had more information in it.
So I trumped it with humans tendency to go towards color
I know I am an evil !@#$%^&</p>
<p>Crystal - you can essentially apply to any public school which does not have a EA/ED date.</p>
<p>You can apply to any private school not calling their process EA/ED.</p>
<p>You can also apply to an ED school along with most any school with just EA like MIT/Caltech/Chicago/Notre Dame. However, your admission at an ED takes precedence over others unless you renouce it when it comes through.</p>
<p>SCEA school policies are much tougher than ED policies. ED schools essentially say it is binding if you get in but they don’t care if you apply elsewhere as long as you are following the other schools’ rule.</p>
<p>Be like me, and wait till November to actually start essays. =P</p>
<p>Tiz, you sly sly person.</p>
<p>I feel like all of us are revolving around the same topics of essays, testing, and EA/ED.</p>
<p>lets talk about extra curriculars.
Everybody knows mine by my blabbering.
What’s everybody elses?</p>
<p>@texaspg oh okay, I get it now thanks! </p>
<p>@north, I have a passion for photogrpahy but not as good as u I like sports and computers though! :)</p>
<p>Rew, I haven’t really made much progress on the essay front. Been pretty busy with school. How about yours?
And to answer your questions -
- My college list would most probably look something like : hyps, brown, darthmouth, penn, northwestern, duke, ucb/la, cmu, maybe jhu and mit too. I still have to factor in some safeties and then cut my list further down. This is just a rough version.
- Nope, not a US citizen.
- I won’t apply for aid at need-aware colleges.</p>
<p>Like idream said, there is a high degree of self-selectivity in the EA and ED applicant pools. Regardless, I think that everyone should apply EA or SCEA or ED to atleast one school because of the low possibility of clones. Clones are people who have more or less the same application as your’s but have a hook like legacy or full pay status.</p>
<p>So do apply EA or ED somewhere. Also, don’t use the excuse of having MIT, or a similar school, as your first choice which doesn’t allow you to apply EA like I did. Definitely apply early somewhere, if you can.</p>
<p>@tizil thank u for explaining I really appreciate it
Tizil how is berkely? I want to apply there too but I want to know what are there requirements and there acceptance rate and all the other factors which are important for admission… Oh and can I ea to berkely or is it like mit? </p>
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