<p>Hi, bluebayou, you are making a testable prediction: </p>
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<p>We’ll see what happens in a while at the three nationally known universities that have gone to a single-deadline system from ED or from SCEA. I don’t think I would make the same prediction, but how much effect is “nearly zero effect”–in other words, how much effect is more than just random year-by-year variation? </p>
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<p>Having been to some of those locations in California, I’d have to agree with you that the announced locations for information sessions (there is one location not yet announced, and perhaps more locations to be added) are not in conspicuously low-SES places. I suppose the four locations in West Virginia were mostly lobbied for by the U of Virginia. In some of the urban locations I note in the Midwest and South, one could get good catchment of low-income students, especially if transportation to the meeting is provided to the students. Public transportation is LOUSY here in Minnesota, so Harvard sends a signal every year (and MIT most years) by putting on information sessions in inner-city neighborhoods reachable by the city bus system.</p>