<p>Does anyone else not think Harvard’s idea is a good one? It seems to me that Harvard’s switch will increase competition among colleges, even though they claim it will reduce the craziness, as it said in the NYT. With so many kids getting accepted EA or ED, they reduce competition at other schools that they might not want to go to very much. As for low-income kids, EA in the place of ED seems to have taken care of the problem of comparing FA packages. They say that it still discourages these kids because they don’t understand how the process works. I think they’d do better to work on getting that kind of info out to those kids.</p>