UNC’s move came just a few months after Yale president Richard Levin urged a halt. Levin and others contend that early decision favors richer kids who have access to better college counseling. But Yale says it won’t change until its competitors do the same, and so far, only a couple of schools have heeded the call. In March, Beloit College, a top liberal-arts college in Wisconsin, announced that it would stop. UNC officials say their decision came after three years of trying to make early decision as fair as possible. Despite those efforts, says admissions director Jerome Lucido, early applicants were more likely to be white and affluent than regular applicants. It was important, he says, for UNC to “do the right thing.” Anybody else?
