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Now—guess which Ivy League universities don't offer early decision processes? Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. They will say all kinds of things—like they want to give talented students options—but in reality, they don't offer the early decision process because they don't need to. They know that generally speaking, when they admit a student, the student will be so over the moon they've been admitted that they will usually accept with a very high probability. Princeton may lose some students to Harvard, but generally speaking, at this highest of tiers, these universities back themselves as the premium choice for most people applying. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton offer early action instead, which is a way for candidates to apply earlier than the regular round (similarly about November 1 of your last high school year) but you are not forced to go to the school and you can apply to other universities in the regular round.

This is the option I chose back in November 2012. I applied and was accepted early to Harvard, then applied in the regular round to many more schools such as Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and others. Ultimately, after doing the work to apply to many other universities and getting in, I still chose Harvard. They were right in offering early action, because in the end, it was hard to say no to Harvard.