"It just moves up the anxiety," she said. "It's already an anxious time for kids. It just helps colleges with their enrollment procedures, not kids."
On the other hand, Harvard's Director of Admissions Marilyn McGrath Lewis '70-73 believes that the change will decrease stress for high school seniors.
"I think its going to have very little impact, but it will makes people's lives simpler," Lewis said in September. According to Cobb, the change in policy has not had a significant impact on the senior class at her high school, for only three students applied to multiple schools under the new early action programs, even though a majority applied to colleges early.
"In my school, kids have done a good job of using early applications responsibly," Cobb said.
Daniel Saracino, the Assistant Provost for Enrollment of the University of Notre Dame, which has a similar non-exclusive early action procedure, lauded the change in the other schools' admission policies.
"I want the student to have a proper option to decide where to spend the next four years," he said. "It's good to give plenty of time to make the right decision."
Deacon praised the change as well.
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