<p>I agree that the Princeton story is the sign of a healthy attitude seldom exhibited in New Haven, where the Harvard-centrism can sometimes border on the pathological.</p>
<p>See: <a href=“yaleherald.com”>yaleherald.com;
<p>It ought to be possible to sing the praises of your school without the need to make yourself look good by running down the competition. Rapelye’s approach is refreshing: assume you won’t win every head to head battle, but stay positive and on message.</p>
<p>Of course it is true that the Harvard/Princeton cross admit pool has always been a lot smaller than the Harvard/Yale cross admit pool, so the folks in New Haven may rightly feel they have more to lose by giving up the early admissions crutch. In recent years, the Harvard/Stanford cross admit pool has also been larger than the Harvard/Princeton pool.</p>