In their first year without early admissions, Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Virginia received a record number of applications, a sign that their push to open up the competition for spots to more students may be working, the schools' admissions officials said.The three universities hope that eliminating early admissions will create a fairer, less stressful process and a more diverse applicant pool. Early applicants tend to be more affluent than students who apply at the regular deadlines.
Harvard had the most dramatic spike, which it attributed in part to its announcement last month that it was greatly boosting financial aid for students from middle- and higher-income families in the 2008-09 school year. Harvard said yesterday it received 27,278 applications by Jan. 1, a 19 percent increase over last year. Princeton, with 20,118 applicants, had a 6.2 percent increase, and UVA, with 18,900 applicants, reported an increase of 4.5 percent.
The smart are getting smarter while the dumb are getting dumber. Eliminate the race category on applications. We are all one race.
Unfortunately if we eliminate the race category the other "races" will bitch, to an excess.
ReplyDeleteGo tell them to eliminate the scholarships for blacks (before I'm corrected on this, African American is a misnomer). You'll be labeled a racist. It's the other races that desire a schism, it's not like they don't benefit from it.
Good points and you are right.
ReplyDeleteI think that this is mostly due to the fact that those three schools got rid of their early programs. I applied to UVA regular, but not Harvard of Princeton (at all, actually). I applied to Yale, which I believe was one of the only Ivy's that had Early Action, and I know Brown had Early Decision. I just feel as though most people applied early to Yale just to apply to an Ivy, and kind of bumped the people who really want to go to those schools. *cough*me*cough*
ReplyDeleteBut, yeah, other than UVA (which is practically and Ivy, but doesn't want to join for various reasons), those schools are kinda over publicized. Let's see some small private schools (Olin for engineering anyone?)