Sorry, @doschicos , It’s the small college grad in me. I’ve seen the other thread. It’s already about eleven pages long! I started this one when it was revealed that LACs were the particular target of the probe. One thing that often gets lost in these raging ED debates is the role played in its development specifically by Wesleyan and four other LACs: Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin and Dartmouth (back in the early days of the Ivy League when D was still considered a LAC) often referred to as “the Pentagonals”. It was designed as a way to give the smaller New England colleges a way of competing with HYP for the better prep school kids, as per this article in Atlantic from sixteen year ago:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/09/the-early-decision-racket/302280/
The Wesleyan forum is a seminar room, not a lecture hall. 