Word: morefully
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And high school guidance counselors have said that the large number of successful early applicants have encouraged more students to apply early, despite the long-standing admissions office policy that applying early won't give students a better chance of being accepted.
The early admits represented a more ethnically diverse group, with African-American students comprising 7.7 percent, up from 5.9 percent last year, and Latino students rising from 6.3 to 7.1 percent. Asian-American and Native American admits both dropped slightly.
The diversity in both the applicant pool and the admit group represents a victory for the admissions office, which recognizes that early action applicants historically tend to be more affluent, and more white, officials said.
"People have honored us by applying and if they have any chance of getting in later, we give them the chance to do so [by rolling them into the regular applicant pool]," Fitzsimmons said. "I know there are people who think we should reject more, but we try to be...
Even more importantly, Harvard got to the long rebounds when Dartmouth's shooters missed their three-point shots.