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Sonos is one of those rare high-end home entertainment products that anybody can set up. Plug it in, follow simple instructions, and music players throughout the house link together wirelessly and pull music from the PC. Its only problem, as I pointed out when it launched, is that it can't play the music that I'm constantly buying from Apple's iTunes Store. Today, Sonos became even simpler, and pretty much solved that music problem in the process...
...Shelving early admission is a bold move for Harvard. Students eager to gain admission to college could potentially apply early to other leading schools instead of waiting for Harvard’s later, unitary deadline. If other top colleges don’t follow Harvard’s lead, some high school seniors may opt for earlier notification elsewhere over a Crimson diploma...
...said that he hopes that other schools will follow suit and drop their early admission programs, but it is not yet clear whether Harvard will set the pace for its peers...
...Stanford’s dean of admissions and financial aid, Richard H. Shaw, said Monday that many colleges could be hesitant to follow in Harvard’s footsteps...
...also spurred other schools, especially Yale, to expand its financial aid packages.We hope that eliminating early admissions altogether proves to be as influential as some of Harvard’s past innovations. Harvard’s unilateral action will have some impact, but if other institutions do not follow suit, higher education will still be tainted. At the very least, all schools (including Princeton, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania, for example) should eliminate binding early decision policies. These programs continue to disadvantage anyone eligible for any financial aid since binding programs prevent students from comparing aid packages from various...