Yale will decrease number of early admits

[jir330]

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In cases of ED, like Princeton, it’s exactly what Granny said–most normal kids have to wait to compare financial aid packages from the schools they get accepted to and can’t commit unconditionally.

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<p>Fair enough.</p>

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Even EA offers a really unfair advantage to children of legacies

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<p>Do you have any evidence to show that children of legacies who apply early have historically better acceptance rates than children of legacies who apply regular?</p>

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otherwise well-educated parents, and students who go to schools that have counselors good enough to inform students of EA options.

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<p>milessmiles already touched on this, but I feel it deserves reiterating. Anyone who is interested enough in a school to apply should be willing to spend at least 5 minutes researching the particular school. 5 minutes of stumbling around on a college’s website is all that is required to find that there exists an early program, and it takes just a few more minutes after that to find out how their early program works. And if the student doesn’t even care enough to do that much, he or she is presented with the choice of early decision/action or regular decision when filling out the Common App. Anyone who doesn’t know about early already would be able to see that, prompting them to find out the difference.</p>

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Those are mostly kids who apply EA; I would wager more than 80% of my inner-city school has no idea that schools offer an early acceptance round, and they find out at the college information session in late October, way too late to get together an application.

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<p>As I’ve explained, the fact that there exists people who are unaware of early action does not mean it is unfair. And since you mention it, there is probably 80% of my school that is unaware about early action/decision programs also, but no one at my school who is actually willing to utilize such a program is negligent enough to not have found out about it.</p>

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I would bet that the income of students accepted even EA is disproportionately higher than students accepted in the regular round, but that’s just a guess. Either way, it’s an unfair advantage, IMO…

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<p>Even if that were true, it does not imply an unfair advantage. Just because lower income applicants use EA less doesn’t mean they are less able to use it. </p>

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I guess inkjet and milessmiles know a lot more about the admissions process than Harvard and Princeton do. You guys should apply for a job there.</p>

<p>Bottom line is, they’re trying to level the playing field in an incredibly unfair process and ultimately, they have the data, we don’t.

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<p>First off, quipping back people who have merely added constructive views to a side of an issue neither adds anything to the conversation nor makes you look witty. Secondly, simply saying that the schools made their decisions and that therefore it must be for valid reasons does not add to the conversation at all. Discussing these schools’ decisions is not worthless.</p>

<p>southeasttitan, upon asking my question, I did not intend to be greeted with such a worthless post. Imagine my surprise when I scrolled down the page just to see that you had more garbage left to leak.</p>