What are the advantages of applying to college early decision/action or applying regular decision?
No, schools don’t favor early action/early decision over regular decision. The process is simply to your benefit, to help you know where you are going ahead of time. The advantages of Early Action/Early Decision are that, obviously, you know what college you are going to far ahead of time. This is quite good, because everybody else in on the edge for three months waiting for their acceptance letters to come in the mail. Disadvantage of Early Decision is that the college forces you to go there if they accept you. This can be bad if, say, the college gives you no financial aid. Then you’re forced to go a school and figure out how to pay for it. So you had better know you really want to go there, no matter what. Early Action is a little less stressful, because they don’t force you to go if they admit you. But there a many less colleges that offer that as an option. Btw, don’t worry about your SAT scores. Research shows that when students retake them, the average gain is only about 40 poin
