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...return to restrictive admissions policies puts Harvard and its peer institutions in violation of guidelines adopted by the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) in 2001. Fitzsimmons said that NACAC would be studying the issue further...
...reverting to its prior policy, Harvard’s rules now conflict with the definitions adopted by the National Association of College Admissions Counseling (NACAC) in September 2001, which prompted Harvard to try allowing its Early Action candidates to apply elsewhere Early Decision. NACAC’s written policies require that its member colleges conform to its definitions or risk expulsion from the organization...
...that a number of leading institutions are disregarding NACAC’s rule allowing Early Decision applicants to also apply Early Action—Princeton, Brown, Yale, Stanford and now Harvard all limit their early candidates to one early application—NACAC has decided to delay enforcement until it can review its definition, according to Martin A. Wilder, NACAC vice president for admission, counseling and enrollment practices...
Bruce Breimer, the college counselor at New York’s Collegiate School, said it was not surprising that NACAC would back down after facing resistance from its most influential members...
...Harvard was trying to be a good team player, but NACAC doesn’t have the stature that a misplaced guideline should induce colleges to do things they don’t want to do,” he said. “NACAC is a well-intentioned bureaucratic organization that has never shown the kind of leadership that would give it that kind of standing...