College apps

Yesterday, I talked to my counselor about my college common applications to clarify a few things about early decision/regular action and a few tidbits about the process itself. She said that the difference between early decision and regular action was that the former was for if I'm dead set on taking that college and the latter is for when I'm applying for other colleges (is that true?)

She also said something regarding the supplement part of the application. I literally breezed through it without giving it much thought and submitted it without me thinking about it. My mom was upset about that because she said my cousin went to the same college I did. Fortunately, my counselor told me that I didn't have to do the supplements.

(just wanted to get my thoughts out there)

Depends on how colleges do their early decision. e.g. MIT does not do a binding early decision, Harvard does. It really depends on the uni.

AK47, you're almost right. MIT doesn't do "early decision", they do "early action". The easy way to remember the difference is colleges with early decision you should only apply to early if you've decided that you want to go there, while early action is just a non-binding early application. All "early decision" schools are binding, schools like MIT just aren't early decision, they're early action.