Harvard ends Early Eaction

[current_student]

<p>stole this from some other forums. apparently they’re trying this out for 3 years. what do you guys think?</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/ed...rtner=homepage[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/ed...rtner=homepage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Harvard University, breaking with a major trend in college admissions, says it will eliminate its early admissions program next year, with university officials arguing that such programs put low-income and minority applicants at a distinct disadvantage in the competition to get into selective universities.

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<p><a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=514173[/url]”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=514173&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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The Corporation, which serves as the University’s executive board, decided to drop the program in large part because of concerns that early admission provides an unfair advantage to applicants from privileged backgrounds, Bok and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in a joint interview yesterday.</p>

<p>Jettisoning early admission, Fitzsimmons said, is “certainly a win for students in the bottom quarter and bottom half of the income distribution.” Students from more affluent families often apply early to express special interest in a particular school, while students from lower socioeconomic levels frequently hold off for the regular admissions process in order to compare colleges’ financial aid offers.

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