<p>Ryan, the important thing is that what you are calling “normal” Early Action programs have meaningfully different sets of rules. Some of them DO permit you to apply to another college Early Decision at the same time you apply to that college Early Action. And some say if you apply to us Early Action, you cannot apply anywhere else Early Decision. That’s a restriction. It’s an important restriction. It doesn’t matter what they call the programs; the colleges in the second set, including Georgetown (which was the first college to adopt that rule) are restrictive compared to the colleges in the first set. </p>
<p>So, yes, of course Georgetown offers an Early Action option. No one says it doesn’t. And Georgetown’s Early Action program isn’t AS restrictive as Stanford’s or Yale’s, since you could apply to Georgetown and a few other colleges EA at the same time. But Georgetown does restrict you from applying ED anywhere (and there are a lot more ED colleges than there are EA colleges). So if Georgetown is your second (or lower) choice, you may have to choose between applying to your first choice ED and applying to Georgetown and maybe a few other colleges EA. That’s not as student-friendly as the colleges that don’t put you to that dilemma.</p>