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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have been spending time with my DS looking over schools he might find interesting.  Matching geographic locations, preference on campus environment, majors, etc.  Coming up with a list of reaches, competitive (which with percentages so low are really also "tier 2 reaches" and some higher acceptance schools).

Thought he would have some nice options but just finding that most of the schools he is interested in have Early Decision only or Regular Admission.  With your changes of getting in dropping dramatically in Regular.  I though everyone applied early?  We thought he could apply to a bunch early action and then make a decision. But it seems like you can only pick one ED, apply early to one or two that have it available and the rest are regular and you might as well play the lottery.

Am I missing something?  [/quote]
Early Action is non-binding, and is least restrictive. Many public schools and state flagships offer EA.

Restricted Early Action (REA) is slightly more restrictive and the rules vary by college. Colleges that allow REA typically limit you from applying to other private colleges, unless the private colleges offer scholarships only to EA candidates in which case you can apply to those also.

ED is the most restrictive and [b]contractually[/b] obligates you to accept if you are offered an admission. So you can't ED to multiple colleges at the same time. Some colleges offer multiple ED cycles (ED1, ED2 etc).

This is what we did for our DS -

In the first wave, we applied REA to Stanford, and EA to a bunch of public schools (UMD, UMich, UW-Madison, Purdue etc) and USC (scholarship requirement)
In the second wave we did RD to multiple Ivy's, CMU, and WashU
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