January 19, 2007

Yale U. Will Keep Early-Admissions Program Despite Competitors' Moves

By ERIC HOOVER

Yale University will keep its early-admissions program despite the recent decisions by its two biggest rivals to abandon the controversial practice.

In an interview published in the January-February edition of the Yale Alumni Magazine, Richard C. Levin, the university's president, said dropping early admissions would not increase the socioeconomic diversity of Yale's applicants.

Last summer Harvard University said it would dismantle its early-admissions program in hopes of

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