Editorial: Early decision admissions for college unfairly favor wealthy students
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: Early decision admissions for college unfairly favor wealthy students

LA Times  

Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif., pictured in 2021, is one of the higher education institutions that uses early decision, an admissions practice that favors privileged students. That’s good, but the use of another college admissions practice that favors wealthy students has been growing: early decision. Low-income and middle-class students who rely on generous financial aid to attend college are less able to take advantage of early decision, because they have less wiggle room on financial aid. A growing number of colleges are offering Early Decision 2, in which students apply during the regular application period, but nonetheless commit to accepting an offer from that college if accepted.

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Early decision and equity: Why filling a class in December isn’t necessarily evil.
1 year ago

Early decision and equity: Why filling a class in December isn’t necessarily evil.

Slate  

If you walk into any expensive private high school today, you’ll feel it: a buzz of anxiety and anticipation. This annual ritual—where, in exchange for committing to enroll at a college if admitted, early decision applicants find out whether they got in by mid-December—has become such a fraught experience at independent high schools and rich public schools in places like …

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