COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE US WITH EARLY ACTION (NON-BINDING) ADMISSION DECISION PLANS (cross referenced with Early Decision [ED] plans) [last modified July 7, 2017 at 9:02 AM] ALABAMA Birmingham-Southern College (11-15) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-1)] ARKANSAS Hendrix College (11-15) University of Arkansas (11-1) CALIFORNIA Azusa Pacific University (11-15) Biola University (11-15 and EA II 1-15) California Baptist University (12-15) California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech) (11-1) California Lutheran University (11-1) California Maritime Academy (10-31) California State University at Bakersfield (11-30) Chapman University (11-1) Concordia University Irvine (12-1) Loyola Marymount University (11-1) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-1)] Menlo College (11-15) Mills College (11-15) Mount Saint Mary’s University (12-1) Notre Dame de Namur University (12-1) Point Loma Nazarene University (11-15) Saint Mary’s College of California (11-15) Santa Clara University (11-1) [also supports an Early Decision (11-1) plan] Soka University of America (11-1) Stanford University (11-1) [restrictive plan as follows: --applicants agree not to apply to any other private college/university under an Early Action, Restrictive/Single-Choice Early Action, Early Decision or Early Notification plan; --applicants may apply to other colleges and universities under their Regular Decision option EXCEPTIONS: --the student many apply to any college/university with early deadlines for scholarships or special academic programs as long as the decision is non-binding; --the student may apply to any public college/university with a non- binding early application option; --the student may apply to any college/university with a non-binding rolling admission process; --the student may apply to any foreign (i.e., international) college/university on any application schedule University of Redlands (11-15) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-15)] University of San Francisco (11-15) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-15)] University of the Pacific (11-15) Vanguard University of Southern California (12-1) Westmont College (11-15) Whittier College (11-15) COLORADO Colorado College (11-10) [also supports Early Decision (11-10) and ED II (1-15) plans] Colorado State University (12-1) Fort Lewis College (1-15) University of Colorado at Boulder (11-15) University of Denver (11-1) [also supports Early Decision (11-1) and ED II (1-15) plans] CONNECTICUT Fairfield University (11-1) [also supports an Early Decision (11-15) and ED II (1-15) plans] Sacred Heart University (12-15) [also supports an Early Decision plan (12-1)] United States Coast Guard Academy (10-15) University of Hartford (11-15) University of New Haven (12-15) [also supports an Early Decision plan (12-1)] Yale University [restrictive plan as follows: --a student may apply to any college’s non-binding rolling admission program; --a student may apply to any public institution at any time provided that admission is not binding; --a student may apply to another college’s ED II program, but only if the notification of admission occurs after January 1. If the student is admitted through another college’s ED II binding program, s/he must withdraw her/his application from Yale; --a student may apply to another college’s EA II program; --a student may apply to any institution outside the US at any time DELAWARE Delaware College of Art and Design (12-1) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Catholic University of America (11-1) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-15)] Georgetown University (11-1) [restrictive plan as follows: --students applying to Georgetown under the Early Action program may not apply to a binding Early Decision program. Georgetown does, however, give students the option to apply both under the Georgetown EA program and under EA programs of other schools. The student may not apply to an ED II program if an EA applicant to Georgetown or admitted EA student Howard University (11-1) FLORIDA Eckerd College (11-16) Lynn University (11-15) New College of Florida (11-1) Ringling College of Art and Design (11-1) University of Miami (11-1) [also supports Early Decision (11-1) and ED II (1-1) plans] University of Tampa (11-15) GEORGIA Agnes Scott College (11-15) [also supports Early Decision (11-1) and ED II (1-15) plans] Berry College (11-1) [also supports an Early Decision (11-1) plan] Covenant College (12-1) Georgia College and State University (12-15) Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) (10-15) Georgia State University (11-15) Mercer University (11-1) Morehouse College (11-1) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-1)] Oglethorpe University (11-15) Spelman College (11-15) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-1)] University of Georgia (10-15) University of North Georgia (11-15) HAWAI’I Hawai’i Pacific University (11-15) IDAHO College of Idaho (11-16) Northwest Nazarene University (2-15) ILLINOIS Augustana College (11-1) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-1)] DePaul University (11-15) Elmhurst College (11-1) Governor’s State University (11-15) Illinois College (12-1) Illinois Wesleyan University (11-1) Knox College (12-1) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-1)] Lake Forest College (11-15) [also supports Early Decision (11-15) and ED II (1-15) plans] School of the Art Institute of Chicago (11-15) University of Chicago (11-1) [also supports Early Decision (11-1) and ED II (1-1) plans] University of Illinois at Chicago (11-1) University of Illinois, Shampoo-Banana (11-1) Wheaton College (11-1) INDIANA Butler University (11-1) DePauw University (12-1) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-1)] Earlham College (1-15) [also supports Early Decision (11-15) and ED II (1-15) plans] Grace College (12-1) Hanover College (12-1) Indiana University Bloomington (11-1) Purdue University (11-1) Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (11-1) Taylor University (12-1) University of Evansville (12-1) University of Notre Dame (11-1) [restrictive plan as follows: --a student applying Restrictive Early Action may apply to other Early Action programs; --a student applying Restrictive Early Action may not apply to any college or university via a binding Early Decision program; --students do not indicate a first-choice preference by applying Restrictive Early Action and may still wait until May 1 to indicate decision to attend Wabash College (11-1) [also supports an Early Decision plan (10-15)] IOWA Coe College (12-10) Cornell College (11-1 and EA II 12-1) [also supports Early Decision (11-1) and ED II (2-1) plans] KENTUCKY Bellarmine College (11-1) Centre College (12-1) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-15)] Transylvania University (12-1) LOUISIANA Centenary College of Louisiana (12-15) Dillard University (12-1) Loyola University of New Orleans (11-15) Tulane University (11-15) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-1)] MAINE Maine College of Art (12-1) Maine Maritime Academy (11-30) Saint Joseph’s College of Maine (11-15; EA II 1-15 nursing applicants only) Thomas College (12-15) Unity College in Maine (12-15) University of Maine (12-1) University of Maine at Farmington (11-15) University of New England (12-1) MARYLAND Goucher College (12-1) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-15)] Loyola University in Maryland (11-15 and EA II 1-15) McDaniel College (12-15) [also supports Early Decision (11-1) and ED II (1-15) plans] Morgan State University (11-15) Mount Saint Mary’s University (12-1) Salisbury University (12-1) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-15)] Saint John’s College (11-15) Saint Mary’s College of Maryland (11-15) University of Maryland Baltimore County (11-1) University of Maryland College Park (11-1) Washington College (12-1) [also supports Early Decision (11-15) and ED II (12-15) plans] MASSACHUSETTS Assumption College (11-1) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-1)] Babson College (11-1) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-1)] Bay Path College (12-15) Becker College (11-15) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-15)] Berklee College of Music (12-1) Boston College (11-1) [restrictive plan as follows: --a student applying Early Action to Boston College may apply to other Early Action programs; --a student applying to a binding Early Decision II program may apply Early Action to Boston College; --a student applying to a binding Early Decision program may not apply Early Action to Boston College; --applicants are advised that the Early Action review process is more selective than that of Regular Decision Bridgewater State University (11-15) Clark University (11-1) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-1)] Curry College (12-1) Dean College (12-20) Emerson College (11-1) Emmanuel College (11-1) Framingham State University (11-15) Gordon College (10-15 and EA II 11-15) Hampshire College (12-1) [also supports Early Decision (11-15) and ED II (1-1) plans] Harvard/Radcliffe Colleges [11-1; restrictive plan as follows: --a student may apply Early Action to any public college/university or to any foreign (i.e., international) universities; --a student may not apply Early Action or Early Decision to any private institutions in the United States Lasell College (11-15) Lesley University (12-1) Massachusetts College of Art and Design (12-1) Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (12-1) Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (11-1 and EA II 12-1) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (11-1) Massachusetts Maritime Academy (11-1) Merrimack College (11-15 and EA II 1-15) [also supports an Early Decision plan (11-15)]