<p>I thought that Princeton’s ED program was horrible. It took half its class from about 15% of its applicant pool. And it was clear to everyone who looked at the question that unaffluent students generally felt excluded from ED, even if they shouldn’t have, and that the ED pool was persistently richer and whiter than the applicant pool as a whole. So they were right to do away with that.</p>
<p>As for SCEA, there are no logical reasons not to use it, except for the fact that unaffluent students continue to confuse it with ED and thus to avoid it (although not anywhere near to the extent they avoid ED), and that some students from “bad” schools may have trouble getting it together to apply by November 1. I think those arguments are pretty weak, so I would think it was fine if Princeton adopted an SCEA program like Stanford or Yale.</p>