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...certainly a win for students in the bottom quarter and bottom half of the income distribution.” Students from more affluent families often apply early to express special interest in a particular school, while students from lower socioeconomic levels frequently hold off for the regular admissions process in order to compare colleges’ financial aid offers...
Fitzsimmons added that early admission sometimes “subverts” the college admissions process, as seniors may feel compelled to apply early in hopes of gaining an edge over applicants in the regular pool...
Harvard officials adamantly deny that early applicants face less-stringent admissions criteria than their regular-decision counterparts. “There is no strategic advantage to applying to Harvard Early Action,” according to the College Admissions Office website. But Harvard’s acceptance rate in the early round last fall was 21.0 percent—in contrast to a 9.3 percent acceptance rate overall, according to figures from the College...
...youngsters in the U.S. is overweight, you'd think that any increase in physical activity for kids has got to be a good thing. But that isn't necessarily so. It's true that the earlier in life you make running, jumping, swimming and other physical activities a regular part of your daily routine, the healthier you'll be--provided that you keep it up as an adult. But the enormous boom over the past few years in soccer, gymnastics and other highly competitive sports for children has a dark side as well: an epidemic of sports injuries that...
...wife splashed across the morning newspaper, I called everyone I knew. We may never meet Mrs. Ahmadinejad, but for now we are consoled by the political scandal caused by Fatemeh Rajabi, the wife of Ahmadinejad's spokesman and chief of staff. Mrs. Rajabi, it turns out, is a regular contributor to the most extremist publications in the country, a hardline pundit who argues that Islam and democracy are incompatible...