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...both Yale and Stanford, and was criticized in The New York Times by Stanford Provost John Etchemendy. Fitzsimmons has repeatedly said that one of the major goals of the move is to attract students from lower income brackets, as early admissions programs tend to “advantage the advantaged?? who have access to guidance that might motivate them to apply early to a school. With the increased time available for recruiting high school students, the admissions office hopes to broaden the Harvard applicant pool by reaching out to schools in low-income areas, Fitzsimmons said. Another goal...
...September, the College became the first among peer institutions to end its early admissions program, arguing that the system “advantaged the advantaged?? and needlessly stressed high school seniors by leading them to start the application process prematurely...
...early action.” It is Harvard’s hope, and ours too, that moving to single-stage admissions will increase the diversity of the student body. As interim University President Derek C. Bok said yesterday, early admissions “advantage[s] the advantaged?? because the pool of early applicants is disproportionately affluent and white. Most strong minority and low-income applicants apply in January. Their secondary schools, where the advisee-to-councilor ratio is astronomical, where most students don’t have the money to visit colleges or hire private councilors, and where...
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