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...have any "early" program at all? There has been a dramatic increase in demand for early programs by many of the nation's and the world's best students. This demand has been in evidence since Harvard's Early Action Program began in the 1970s and has accelerated over the past decade. More top students are ready to apply to college earlier, having developed their academic and extracurricular talents more intensively than students of previous generations. While there are some students who profit from a more leisurely pace and begin to realize their potential only during the college years...
...college admissions process. The explosion of information about colleges through the media of videos, guidebooks, the internet and college recruitment materials, fueled by increasing interest on the part of the news media, has made students, their families and their counselors better informed than ever before. Without an "early" program, Harvard and Radcliffe would lose by default many of the best students to other institutions that are able to capitalize on the national demand for early programs...
...binding "early decision" program used by most colleges that requires admitted students to attend? Harvard has always resisted such programs on the principle that students should have as much time as possible to weigh their college admissions and financial aid decisions. We believe that Harvard's 97 percent graduation rate, the highest in the country, is due in part to the Early Action Program's flexibility. Those admitted through the Early Action Program can apply elsewhere, and take most of their senior year to determine if Harvard and Radcliffe are the right match for them before replying...
...strongly committed to equal access for financial aid applicants under Early Action. Under our Early Action Program, admitted financial aid applicants can apply to regular action programs elsewhere and have the benefit of comparing our financial aid package with those of other institutions. In fact, many high school counselors urge students who will need financial aid not to apply to binding early decision programs which limit them necessarily to a single financial aid offer...
...have so many students been applying to Harvard's Early Action Program lately? The numbers of students applying under Early Action increased fairly steadily during the 1980s and 1990s, reaching 2,990 in 1994. In that year, Yale and Princeton Universities switched from early action to bind early decision programs, and Stanford University, which had never offered an early program of any sort, adopting binding early decision as well. During the 1995 and 1996 admissions cycles, about 3,900 students chose our non-binding Early Action Program, and we experienced a slight increase to 4,200 this year. The number...