Slichot also for Ashkenazim!
In the Yeshiva, it is customary to say the Slichot during the month of Elul
in the morning before the prayers.
Ashkenazi students join in as well saying the slichot together with the Sephardi ones.
They do so out of love for the wording and the special melodies
and also as an opportunity to pray early in the morning.