Word: action
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's early action program, now almost a quarter-century old, has become the choice of an increasingly large number of college applicants, particularly over the past decade. The program's growth accelerated even further in 1995-96, when several other top schools moved to binding early decision programs, which require students to attend if they are admitted...
Yale and Princeton both use early decision rather than early action...
...certainly wouldn't hurt if this year's numbers encourage students--and their parents and counselors--to think twice about applying early," he said. "There are many students who would be much better served by applying regular action...
...diversity in both the applicant pool and the admit group represents a victory for the admissions office, which recognizes that early action applicants historically tend to be more affluent, and more white, officials said...
Deferred students--who make up the bulk of the applicants--can still hope to color themselves Crimson in April. In recent years, 85 to 220 deferred early action applicants have been admitted in the spring...