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Along-standing principle at the College has been to make competition for admission accessible to the most talented and promising individuals from the broadest range of backgrounds and geographic areas. Our policies of need-blind admissions and need-based financial aid may be our most direct and powerful tools to ensure access. We have also re-designed our application procedures for that same purpose. Our use of the Common Application simplifies the process of application both for candidates and for the guidance counselors and teachers who write on their behalf. Similarly, our outreach and recruitment activities, including our policy...
...binding Early Action Program, which has been in place for many years, is likewise designed to help us meet prospective students' various needs flexibly. The program allows students to consider carefully the full range of their admission and financial aid choices with the benefit of the perspective attained during the senior year, a valuable period of personal and academic growth. Indeed, our admission letter urges students to consider deferring their enrollment for a year to gain additional perspective before entering the College. Our experience has persuaded us that it is better not to rush ahead in choosing or entering college...
...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...
...percentage of those choosing to matriculate) on Early Action candidates is lower than the essentially 100 percent yields guaranteed for binding early decision programs, it is more important for us to be confident that students we admit early are making better informed decisions about their college choice and financial aid options. Obtaining higher yields may have been part of the motivation for colleges that adopted binding early decision programs, but our yield of approximately 90 percent for Early Action students seems a scant difference given the gains students receive in return...