Early Action Benefits in NY Times article

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/education/21admissions.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/education/21admissions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>thank you…</p>

<p>mods: please move this to another forum as well…</p>

<p>Why should it be moved? Tulane has Early Action. Vitrac thought Tulane people might be interested, and might not see it elsewhere. If you want more people to see it, rodney, you can post the same link anywhere you want.</p>

<p>The article is a poor one anyway. It talks about early action, but then goes on about how critics argue it advantages wealthier students, which is only potentially true of early decision. It uses both terms without explaining the difference at all. It barely mentions that students applying EA are often self-selectively academically superior and that might explain the entire gap in admissions rates. Not a very good article at all, unfortunately.</p>

<p>In fairness to the writer, it is the headline writer who makes the error. The article itself talks about Early Decision only according to my read.

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<p>^^thank you, idad; yes, I didn’t think it belonged on the Tulane forum since the majority of the article was about binding ED…and i “mispoke”…yes, I wanted it repeated elsewhere…</p>

<p>and btw, for those of you who are inclined, the full report is available on the NACAC site.</p>

<p>Fair enough.</p>