Princeton to reinstate early admission program

JHS
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:02:38 +0000

Here’s a bold prediction: Princeton’s SCEA program will look pretty much exactly like Harvard’s (and Yale’s). There is no benefit to any of them from being significantly more restrictive than the others with regard to public university applications. I believe that the number of accepted students any of HYP loses to home-state publics annually is in the single digits. (At Stanford, it may be double-digits because of the California-heavy applicant base and the high academic quality of Berkeley and UCLA.) It just doesn’t matter to them, and it would be sort of wanton on their part to put thousands of unrealistic EA applicants at some meaningful disadvantage with respect to colleges that might actually accept them, and where they may actually need to go.