Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Harvard Ends Early Admission

Very interesting. I wonder just how disparite the demographics of early admissions applicants is compared to other applicants. For them to frame this as an equity issue, it must be stark.

Harvard Ends Early Admission, Citing Barrier to Disadvantaged
Harvard University, breaking with a major trend in college admissions, says it will eliminate its early admissions program next year, with university officials arguing that such programs put low-income and minority applicants at a distinct disadvantage in the competition to get into selective universities.
Who else will follow?

posted by KC @ 1:52 AM   comment

1 Comments:

At Tue Sep 12, 07:06:00 PM, Blogger Caroline said...

I posted a commentary on the early decision issue that answers your question, at least at one university:

University of North Carolina (UNC) reports 82 percent of its early decision applicants were white, compared with 61 percent of regular applicants.

 

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