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...week after Harvard became the first Ivy League university to announce the dismantlement of its early admissions program, Princeton University followed suit yesterday, moving to a unitary applicant pool for the Class of 2012.In announcing the move, Princeton officials echoed Harvard’s words—nearly verbatim. Harvard’s interim president, Derek C. Bok, said last week that “early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.” Students from low-income families must wait until the springtime to compare various schools’ financial aid packages, while richer students whose families...
...week after Harvard became the first Ivy League university to announce the dismantlement of its early admissions program, Princeton University followed suit today, moving to a unitary applicant pool for the Class...
Making his own way is nothing new for Graham. He grew up in the rooms behind the Sanitary Cafe, a pool hall, bar and liquor store that his parents owned in Central, S.C. Graham's father, known as Dude, tended bar for the millworker clientele; the future Senator racked balls and answered phones. You've learned everything you really need to know about politics, Graham says, when you've had the experience of telling a wife who is on the line and looking for her husband, "He says he's not here." Graham set his sights on the military early...
...having the option to separate oneself into an early applicant group may make applying to Harvard more daunting. “People who apply early admissions to Harvard are probably very qualified and very interested, and now that you’re putting all those people in the general pool, which is already wicked competitive, it is going to be that much more competitive,” said another junior at Exeter, Kevin S. Donohoe. “It might make me shy away from the school.” Others fear that the larger applicant pool may elevate...
...special advantage in the admissions process.Yet, many still believe such an advantage exists. These students point to the fact that the early admissions rate at Harvard has historically been approximately double that of the overall rate. Although that difference can be attributed to the strength of the early applicant pool, to the untrained eye, the playing field seems uneven. The result, admissions officers say, is that some potential applicants are deterred from applying at all. These students think that they shouldn’t bother applying if Harvard has filled up nearly half of its spots with early admits...