Harvard Re-Examining Decision to Eliminate Early Admissions

[Harambee]

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I don’t imagine that H is losing too many potential students to Yale or Stanford’s SCEA programs. Those programs are not binding and if a student is admitted under one of the programs they can still apply to H with the pressure off. So, if they are the type of student that is not truly in love with Y or S to start with, they will apply to H to see what their options are for the May 1 decision date.

Why would an applicant waste their chance to apply early at Stanford or Yale if they truly weren’t in love with the school?</p>

<p>I think Harvard loses many potential students to Stanford and Yale’s early programs. The two programs have a very high yield, so I think the cross admits Harvard gets from these schools are mainly from RD.</p>

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At the end of the day H still handily wins the cross admits with both of these (and all other) schools so they are getting the majority of those who are open to multiple schools.

Harvard has the edge on cross admits, but I don’t think they win them ‘handily’. Like luceverita, I’d also like to see data on this</p>