Admissions Officials at Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Call New Early-Admissions Plan a Success

Chart: A New Flock of Early Birds

Admissions officials at Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Universities say they are happy with the student response to a new early-admission policy, called "single-choice early action," that the institutions introduced this year.

The goal of the policy is to make applying early to a college a sign that it is a student's first choice without locking in the student by making him or her pledge to

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