Word: nacac
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...system’s backbone has been provided by guidance counselors, whose relationships with colleges would be compromised if students backed out of their early decision commitments. The NACAC policy change—which survived last weekend’s national NACAC convention—removes counselors from this role, as sending out transcripts and recommendations to several schools early (as long as only one is early decision) will now be the norm. “We encourage kids to make choices and take responsibility for those choices, as long as the national association says it’s okay...
...policy will needlessly stretch Byerly Hall’s resources by creating a new class of Harvard applicants—students who are not eligible to enroll. Since Harvard has no way to know what other applications students have filed and is bound by its membership in NACAC to allow early decision candidates to apply, it will inevitably accept students who were also accepted at an early decision college. Fitzsimmons said in June that Harvard wasn’t sure how to handle these cases: Should it let the students enroll if they sought to break their commitment to another...
...McGrath Lewis discussed these issues with the Standing Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid last spring, the connection between Harvard’s response to the NACAC policy and the future of early decision in general became apparent. There would be drastic implications at other elite schools if Harvard opened its gates to their early decision students. With college counselors now authorized by NACAC to send applications to as many early action schools as a student wanted alongside an early decision application, nothing could stop students accepted at early decision colleges from enrolling at Harvard. That would leave early decision...
Once the fact sheet was released, the issue was laid to rest in the press. But in fact, most of the questions raised by the potential Harvard situation remain alive and are likely to be tested in the first year of the new NACAC system...
Princeton’s Dean of Admissions Fred Hargadon is a longtime supporter of early decision—he has piloted Princeton on a crash course with NACAC by requiring that its early decision applicants file no early action applications, a decision that could result in Princeton’s expulsion from the organization. But Hargadon is retiring after this year, giving Princeton’s president, Shirley M. Tilghman, the opportunity to appoint a dean whose view on early decision could be different than Hargadon’s. And Tilghman has demonstrated sensitivity to the inequalities that...