SCEA

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SCEA
Stands forSingle-choice early action
CategoriesEducation & Academia

SCEA stands for Single-choice early action, an academic abbreviation.

Early application plan used by Yale and Princeton that is non-binding but limits applicants to that single private early application, with exceptions for some public, international and rolling-admission schools. Decisions come in mid-December.

Example: He applied SCEA to Yale and submitted his public university applications early too.

Usage notes

SCEA and REA are essentially the same idea under different names; which label a college uses is a matter of institutional choice. Admitted students may still apply regular decision elsewhere and decide by May 1. Deferred applicants are reviewed again in the spring.

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