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[quote=Anonymous]Pretty sure you have this wrong.  Harvard STOPPED early decision in 2006, feeling it was unfair to those needing to compare financial aid offers, Princeton and I believe at one point UVa followed, but the problem was that no one else did. Stanford and Yale had "single choice early action" which gave admission early but did not require the student to attend, but could only apply to one school early (besides a state university).  Eventually Harvard and Princeton, realizing they were losing students to schools with ED and EA and that no other top schools had followed their lead, began offering "single choice" non-binding early action as well for the class of 2012.  So now other than the military academies, there are few to no schools left without binding early decision or non-binding early action.  All the other Ivys had binding early decision programs throughout this period.

In the top LACs and the non-HYPS Ivys, applying ED gives kids a large advantage, a much higher percentage of kids are accepted when they apply ED versus regular decision, although in part that may be accounted for by recruited athletes who have to apply early to keep their "spot" generally.[/quote]

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