Yale and Stanford Act
November 9, 2002

o the Editor:

As the college counselor at St. Paul's School, I applaud Yale and Stanford for deciding not to require students accepted through early applications to attend the universities (news article, Nov. 7).

 

Early action programs, when first conceived, were a win-win policy for the student and the college. Students could, if ready, choose an early application, and yet could also apply to other colleges in the regular round of applications. Yale and Stanford are signaling a return to an ideal of choice for students that has been eroded by a decade of rankings-driven manipulations.

 

Good for Yale and Stanford, and good for the high school classes of 2004!

ROBERT W. HILL III
Concord, N.H., Nov. 8, 2002