<p>I respectfully disagree with a number of your points.</p>
<p>Cornell, for example, does not rely on EA/ED to boost its yield to anywhere NEAR the degree that Yale, Columbia and Penn do. For this reason, surprisingly, Cornell may be the other Ivy most likely to join Harvard and Princeton in renouncing (what I call) the early admissions scam.</p>
<p>I have seen no statistics whatsover to indicate that the advantages for early applicants have abated anywhere. </p>
<p>The only possible exceptions may be at Harvard and Stanford for the class of 2010, where the fraction of the class filled from the early pool was substantially reduced this year - apparently as a matter of policy.</p>