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September 14, 2006
Changes in the college admission process
There are many reasons why elite colleges have come to rely on early admissions to shape their college classes. This ends up punishing poor and first time college going famlies from attending these schools because they lack the ability to commit to one school early in the application process.
In an extensive article on the subject in The Atlantic Monthly back in 2001, it was mentioned a critical step to curtailing this practice would be for Harvard to abandon the practice "It's all about Harvard, it really is," Mark Davis, of Exeter, told me. "If they didn't have an early program, then others would feel comfortable following suit."
Well look what happened, Harvard Ends Early Admission. Keep an eye out for big changes on the collge application world.
Posted by OneEyedMan at September 14, 2006 7:22 PM
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