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Types of College Admission

 

Students have 6 options for college admission.  MyCollegeCalendar highly recommends students use the Early Application process and schedule; corresponding tasks, details and deadlines are provided throughout the MyCollegeCalendar online admissions system. 

 

Typically, Early Applications are due November 15 of your senior year, but some selective universities have due dates of November 1 (and a few even have dates of October 15).  Be sure to check with each college you're applying to for their specific deadlines.  A summary table of the types of admission is provided.

 

The options for college admission include:

 

Early Decision
Early Application (or Early Action)
Single-Choice Early Action
Regular Admission
Rolling Admission
Late Admission

 

Other admission terms exist, but typically are not part of the initial application process.  These include:

 

Early admission – Students of superior ability are admitted to college before graduating from high school.

 

Open admission – Virtually all high school graduates are accepted for admission regardless of academic qualifications.

 

Deferred admission – Two definitions exist:  (1) Students applying under the early application process are “deferred” from being an early applicant and are “pushed” back to be part of the regular admission pool of applicants or (2), accepted students are permitted to postpone enrollment for one year.

 

Early evaluation – Students applying under the regular application process can request early evaluation to find out early if their chance for admission is good, fair, or poor.  Applications are submitted before the regular admission deadline and college admissions offices gives their opinion prior to March.