November 7, 2003

Admissions Frenzy: Useful Data From Colleges Would Help Applicants

By CULLEN MURPHY and JAMES FALLOWS

The Atlantic Monthly has covered college admissions for a very long time. In 1892, it published "The Present Requirements for Admission to Harvard College," by James Jay Greenough, and in 1979, it published one of the earliest journalistic accounts of how colleges market themselves, by Edward B. Fiske. Over the last decade it has examined how the SAT is put together, how financial aid is used and misused, and how the early-decision system works, in articles by Nicholas Lemann, David Brooks,

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