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This commitment to socioeconomic diversity can also be seen in the laudable decision to eliminate the early action option for applicants. Despite fears that Harvard would lose competitive applicants to peer institutions, this year’s record low admit rate of 7.1 percent vindicates the Admissions Office and demonstrates that the institution’s goals of competitiveness and diversity are not mutually exclusive...
Eliminating early action achieves diversity in two ways. First, it makes the process fairer for those students who could not apply early under the previous system because of a lack of money or inadequate college counseling. Second, the extra time in the fall gives admissions officers and athletic coaches the chance to recruit qualified high school students who would not typically apply to Harvard. While opponents of the decision warned that top applicants would be lost to peer institutions, “letters of intent” expressing interest in a student’s candidacy were sent in advance...
This was just one of many distractions plaguing Faculty action. Despite having several important items on the agenda, they chose to cancel January’s faculty meeting, an apparent annual tradition that nevertheless set back progress in favor of extra long vacations for professors. Fortunately, at the February meeting, the Faculty managed to address several of these issues. At that meeting, the Faculty voted to require that all courses allow Q Guide evaluations—a valuable reform that will ensure that students have at least some information on the quality of the courses they are considering during shopping...
...early action. The Task Force on the Arts. The dramatic increases in financial...
...Spurred by this conviction, Spencer became a driving force behind Harvard’s two landmark financial aid programs as well as the end of early action. William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, Harvard’s veteran dean of admissions and financial aid, said Spencer was “indispensable to the success of all three initiatives...