Yale will decrease number of early admits

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<p>H and P’s stated reason for eliminating EA/ED was to attract more lower-income applicants who 1) lack strong guidance counseling and so are unfamiliar with the college application process, and 2) need to compare multiple financial aid offers and so are not able to apply ED. (The second reason applied to P only; H’s program was SCEA.)</p>

<p>As far as I know, neither H nor P has published any data to show that its goal was achieved, i.e., that by dropping EA/ED they did in fact attract more high quality, low-income applicants. I don’t think either school has released reports on income distribution in the enrolled classes before and after dropping their early programs.</p>

<p>There’s a long, interesting discussion of this issue on this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/519615-year-without-ea-recap-harvard-admissions-year.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/519615-year-without-ea-recap-harvard-admissions-year.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;