ED和ED2除了时间上有区别，其他基本是一样的。ED比一般普通申请要来得早。学生会在他们必须提交ED2之前收到申请结果，这就是说ED2只提供给那些ED被拒或者没有申请ED的学生。有的学生认为ED和普通申请除了时间上也基本一样。其实不然，你们也许认为申请ED的学生会少很多，但是往往ED都是比普通申请更具竞争力。许多学生想利用ED这个机会去申请比较难的大学，但是结果还是被拒。
Most schools do not offer early decision 2. Here is a full list of the schools that do:
以下清单的大学不接受ED2
Bates College, Bennington College, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Bryant University, Bryn Mawr College, Bucknell University, Carleton College,Carnegie Mellon University, Champlain College, Claremont McKenna College, Colby College, Colgate University, College of the Atlantic, College of Wooster, Colorado College, Connecticut College, Cornell College (IA), Davidson College, Denison University, Dickinson College, Drew University, Elmira College, Emory University, Franklin and Marshall College, George Washington University, Gettysburg College. Goucher College, Grinnell College, Hamilton College, Hampshire College, Harvey Mudd College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Juniata College, Kenyon College, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, List College, The Jewish Theological Seminary, Macalester College, Middlebury College, Mount Holyoke College, New York University, Oberlin College, Occidental College, Pomona College, Reed College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rhodes College, Rollins College, Saint Olaf College, Sarah Lawrence College, Scripps College, Sewanee The University of the South, Skidmore College, Smith College, St. Lawrence University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Stevens Institute of Technology, Swarthmore College, The George Washington University, Trinity College, Tufts University, Union College, University of Puget Sound, University of Richmond, University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University, Vassar College, Washington and Lee University, Wesleyan University, Wheaton College, Whitman College.
