Early Action Doomed?

Colleges & Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Please do not post poorly written opinion pieces from the notoriously misinformed Tech as empirical evidence :/

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This is, after all, the same Tech which once ran an opinion piece urging MIT to start a division I football program, complete with lower admissions standards for football players and special classes for them to take. (If anybody can find the article, could you link to it? I know it was written since I've been here [2002], but I'm not searching on the website with the right keywords, apparently.)</p>

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<p>Hey, that sounds like a great idea. </p>

<p>They could play Harvard every year in "the Battle of Mass. Avenue!"</p>

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<p>So Harvard has lower admissions standard for football players and special classes for them to take?</p>

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<p>Lower standards for a few, but no special classes, mom. Unlike MIT, however, Harvard does not seem to have a gender-based affirmative action policy ;)</p>

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<p>Uh Oh, I'm gettin outa here.</p>

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<p>It is true, Harvard cares more about the trappings of money than about gender. You make an excellent point.</p>

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<p>I'll bite. I have complete access to only one data point with respect to your claim Byerly, and that data indicates you are absolutely wrong on the EA affirmative action claim. Where do you get all the hard data one would need to make the claims you do?</p>

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<p>Compare the fraction of applicants who are female, the fraction of admits, and the fraction of matriculants.</p>

<p>Absent other sources of information, you might check the CDS forms.</p>