Harvard and Princeton have recently re-instituted early action undergraduate admissions programs after cutting them in the fall of 2007. Presumably, these two premier institutions initially took the lead in abolishing their nonbinding early action programs in an attempt to influence peer universities to follow in their footsteps.

The high school seniors arriving on campus this weekend for scholarship finalist weekend—the first of many visitation weekends—were admitted into the University from a pool of nearly 25,000 applicants. “The admission decisions this year were the most challenging in the University’s history,” Director of Admissions Julie Shimabukuro wrote in an e-mail to Student Life.

Student Union Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution in support of founding United for Undergraduate Socio-Economic Diversity (U/FUSED), a group that would aim to increase socioeconomic diversity on a national level at undergraduate schools. U/FUSED will be a coalition that has organizations at different undergraduate schools.

In a blog entitled, “An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition,” sophomore Yan Zhu at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) defines the word “function” in an MIT context for prospective students…