Kudos to Harvard for announcing the end of early admissions. With skyrocketing tuition and applications making college applications into a real pressure-cooker for high school students, it’s about time someone took some of the stress out of it. While elite colleges may love filling 20-50% of their classes with more affluent students set on attending their schools, it rushes others to complete SATs and applications while giving up choice and flexibility to weigh financial aid offers.
Harvard and the other Ivies really have the impetus to start such a change; they’ll always have the reputation to draw plenty of applicants. Hopefully the idea will trickle down to more schools and give high school students back a bit of their time and sanity.
