Harvard Early Applications Take a Dive

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4. Early admit requests down? Fine.

It happens.

Not being transparent with the 9% admitted?

1. It's a private college. They owe us nothing.

2. They get crap-loads of $ from us. WTH?

Within recent memory, Harvard had affirmative-admits that looked nothin like "America." If you were AA with ancestors here 130 years ag ago ... Whatever. Child of immigrants who were professionals ... "affirmative action." Hence President Obama. He fit the profile; his wife did not at the top tier 1+ schools. Transparency hurt them. Bad.

We the People have standards.

They, the Ivy League, have theirs.

They overlap. But on average they are not the same. Sadly. For the offended elite.