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Which raises the possibility that Caperton may, in his well-intentioned effort to ameliorate schools, ruin his main instrument for doing so. "I'm worried they may be asking one test to carry too many buckets of water," says Fred Hargadon, a former College Board vice president. Caperton believes the SAT should be a tool of social change as well as of social measurement--that it should serve communitarian ends even as it tries to give reliable, valid scores to individual kids and colleges. "This [new] test is really going to create a revolution in the schools," he says...
Princeton’s outgoing Dean of Admission, Fred Hargadon, has traditionally been a devoted supporter of Early Decision. Breimer said his successor would likely take two years before deciding whether to change Princeton’s policy in order to see how Yale and Stanford’s moves to Early Action affected their yields, or the proportion of accepted students who attend...
...policy changes leave Princeton as the last of the four most selective schools to still have an Early Decision program. But Princeton’s Dean of Admissions Fred Hargadon said Princeton had no intention to change its policies. Moreover, he warned that the decisions might actually exacerbate the pressure on students by leading to additional growth in the total number of early applications...
...Absent any quid pro quo for seeking an early decision from colleges, I have no doubt that more and more students will be applying Early Action,” Hargadon wrote in an e-mail. “I don’t happen to think that’s a good idea, [but] I recognize that some colleges would simply welcome the resulting increase in their applications, regardless of how serious or well-thought-through such applications...
...practice is unfair and discriminatory, as are accusations of lenient policies towards athletes. Harvard admissions does not cater to athletes any more than it caters to other standouts in any field. Ivy League schools seek a well-rounded student body—as Princeton Dean of Admissions Fred Hargadon put it, “You can’t have all brass and no strings” in your school’s band. Furthermore, student athletes in the Ivy League have demonstrated a commitment to academics simply by choosing an academically top-tier school. A football player who only...