College Admissions

The buzz in higher education last week was that Harvard was eliminating early decision from its admissions program. No longer will students be able to apply to Harvard by the end of October and know their fate (binding if they get in) early in the process. Harvard said they were ending the program because it favored the wealthy, but perhaps, as the NYTimes notes, the end of early admissions would actually help Harvard.

Most interesting to me was this table.