Harvard’s decision to drop its early admissions policy prompted U.S. News to look back at UNC-Chapel Hill’s experience with the same decision:
In 2002, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill stopped its binding early decision program because of worries about the impact on who gets in. Harvard and Yale also dropped their binding early decision options, but the anticipated landslide of other colleges moving away from early admissions never happened. Meanwhile, UNC-Chapel Hill has seen no decline in the quality of its applicant pool. In fact, it has gotten better, according to Chancellor James Moeser. “We hope that more schools make the same decision about early admissions,” Moeser says. “It’s our responsibility to lead the way in reform and avoid the federal government stepping in.”
