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...Bok, however, said that Harvard—which habitually ranks among the most selective colleges in the nation—“can absorb that risk more easily than other schools...
...Corporation, which serves as the University’s executive board, decided to drop the program in large part because of concerns that early admission provides an unfair advantage to applicants from privileged backgrounds, Bok and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in a joint interview Monday...
Interim President Derek C. Bok said that he and the six fellows of the Harvard Corporation, who approved the change Monday morning, had concluded in recent months that “somebody had to take the lead” in eliminating early admission...
...feel that if anybody is going to step up and take the lead to try to get rid of something which is really doing more harm than good in high schools across the country, it’s us,” Bok said...
Although Harvard’s admissions office has weighed the change for several years, Bok said that it was “only within the last few months” that the administration took steps toward ending the College’s early admission program...