Unlocking Early Admissions

wjb
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:26:38 +0000

Interesting piece. This quote gets to the heart of the matter:



Private admissions counselors and high school counselors across the country, including a former Harvard admissions officer, overwhelmingly suspect that Harvard and Princeton felt like they were losing qualified applicants to schools that kept their early programs, including Stanford, MIT, and especially Yale.



What became of the professed goal of schools that eliminated their early programs – to benefit low income and minority students who lacked knowledge of the early admissions advantage? I don’t fault schools for acting in the best interests of the institution (Yale certainly did it too by retaining the early program) but all the lofty double-speak is tiresome.