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Last Wednesday, both Yale and Stanford independently announced that starting next fall, each would replace its binding Early Decision application program with a non-binding Early Action program. Their decisions give high school students an additional, beneficial degree of choice and flexibility in the college application process...
Presidents of both Yale and Stanford emphasized student flexibility as a motivating factor behind their institutions’ policy changes. Their decisions demonstrate a thoughtful commitment to applicants, especially considering that the new policy may, in the short-term, hurt Yale and Stanford by causing them to lose students whom they accepted early, either to Harvard or other colleges which offer better financial aid packages. As an indirect result, ending Early Decision could lower both colleges’ rankings in comparisons that use yield—the percentage of accepted students who actually matriculate—as a criterion...
Despite these welcome changes, implementation of Early Action by Yale and Stanford is not perfect. Both universities have indicated that they will restrict their Early Action applicants from applying early to other institutions. Such a requirement still forces applicants to pick one school to which they want to apply early, keeping the heat on high school seniors to make such an important decision at an unnecessarily early stage...
...Because as long as The Game is alive and well, we can play up the Harvard-Yale rivalry and act as if we truly are the second best school in the nation. We can blithely ignore that there are a number of schools—such as Stanford, Princeton, MIT and Cal Tech—which we “Cantabs” would have to surpass in quality of students, faculty, location and facilities to even be second to Yale...
...idea behind RPG is not new. In 1977, Morris’ friend Thomas Cover, now Li Professor of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford, published an article in the Journal of Operations Research that introduced the precursor to RPG, Offensive Earned Run Average (OERA). “We wanted a simple statistic that would summarize the offensive power of a player,” Cover says. “We imagined putting the batter in all nine positions and seeing how many runs he would generate.” Using an elaborate process called matrix inversion and the 24-square...