09.13.06

Harvard: No More Early Admissions

Posted in education at 1:17 pm by kevin

Harvard to Drop Early Admissions

As many admissions officials quoted in the article point out, yes, Harvard has a special advantage in that they can drop early admissions without really sacrificing the quality of their admitted class. So what? Dropping Early Decision/Action is still a Good Thing for them to do, for all the usual reasons: ED/EA adds unnecessary pressure to an already stressful time, exacerbates class differences, and introduces yet more strategy into a process that (ideally) ought to be far less strategic.

So, yeah, not everyone can afford to do what Harvard’s doing, but that doesn’t make them any less deserving of approbation for taking this stand - especially considering that the few other elite schools who could also afford to take a similar stand, chose not to.

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  1. GrinBlog 2.0 » A Quick Cascade said,

    September 19, 2006 at 1:09 pm

    […] Following Harvard, Princeton is dropping its early admission program. This has an even greater impact, since Princeton’s program was Early Decision (the binding kind), and accounted for about half of the freshman class. […]

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