A while back, Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Virginia caused a considerable stir in the college admissions world when they announced that they would be dropping their early admission policies. Many hailed the announcements as a harbinger of things to come. A desperately needed sense of sanity might be (re-)introduced into the frenzied world of college admissions. Yale would soon join Harvard and Princeton and, once ‘The Big Three’ had led the way, the rest of the Ivy League would fall in line. And, as the Ivy League goes, so goes the rest of higher ed.
The silence, as they say, has been deafening.
So why hasn’t the rest of the higher ed taken the plunge?