Word: overlap
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Miller says the end of overlap was not the sole reason for the wave of changes. Endowment growth and a national belief that college costs excessively burdened the middle class helped push the overhauls...
...administrators, however, did acknowledge that competitive pressures helped bring the changes at the University, and the overlap arrangement would have helped curb that competitive pressure...
Harvard does not seem to have suffered since the end of overlap. Its yield percentage, the percent of students who ultimately decide to accept admissions offers, remains far and away the highest in the country...
Even from the University's point of view, the overlap group was not entirely helpful. Miller says that for admissions and financial aid officers at Harvard, the process was very time-consuming, though ultimately helpful...
...denies, however, that the overlap group inhibited Harvard's ability to act independently, without the approval of the other overlap members...