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...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 of official admissions??helping to maintain a high yield...
...going through the college application process a second time. Although the Admissions Office’s letter to the applicants recognizes this concern (and they plan to refund the application fee) it was in poor form to announce this decision after the application deadline. The reason for eliminating transfer admissions??a housing crunch—certainly did not appear out of thin air. The act of eliminating transfer admissions undermines the Harvard admissions philosophy. Had Harvard read the current applications and decided that none were qualified enough to warrant further housing strain, the decision not to admit transfers...
...sent out far more likely letters, or “likelies,” this year to try to attract students who will or already do have offers from other schools. ‘EXPLODING OFFERS’Though the Ivy League maintains a single reply date for regular admissions??March 31 this year—colleges can offer students the next best thing to an official decision with a proverbial wink, under the theory that an applicant who has more time to consider a college will be likelier to attend.Harvard isn’t the only school...
...overall student body in the near future—a policy we wholeheartedly support—the increase in freshmen must be offset with a decrease in transfers. Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said, “We made the decision because admissions??which reads all the files—felt that the freshman pool of applicants was deeper…than the pool of transfer applicants...
Today 875 students out of 4,008 hopefuls will open their mailboxes or e-mail accounts to find the golden ticket of college admissions??congratulatory letters and e-mails from the admissions office offering them a place in the College’s Class of 2011. In its final year of early admissions, Harvard is inviting around 60 more students to join the incoming class than it did last year, the school announced today. The preliminary early admissions rate of 21.5 percent is almost identical to that of the previous two years. Dean of Admissions and Financial...