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  2. Early action - Wikipedia

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    Regardless, the applicant is still permitted to reject any offer of admission in both types of early action. The rules or policies for Early Action vary widely across schools and it is important for the applicant to be aware of any restrictions. Harvard, Princeton, and Yale have a Single-Choice Early Action program (SCEA), which restricts the ...

  3. Early decision - Wikipedia

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    It was in answer to criticisms of early decision that, starting in 2004, Yale and Stanford switched from early decision to single-choice early action. Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Virginia announced in the Fall of 2006 that they would no longer offer early action or early decision programs, which they claim favor the affluent, and moved to a single deadline instead.

  4. Wikipedia : Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 19

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    You're right it sounds like single choice early action is simply another (perhaps less confusing) name for restrictive early action. In fact they even have pretty much the same exceptions [1] i.e. public universities, foreign ones (of course the problem with foreign ones is such concepts as early action don't always translate well, probably one ...

  5. Harvard early applications fall 17% to four-year lows - AOL

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    Early applications at Harvard declined by 17% to four-year lows, according to figures released Thursday. Harvard College accepted 692 students for the Class of 2028 from a pool of 7,921 applicants ...

  6. History of Harvard University - Wikipedia

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    History of Harvard University. The history of Harvard University begins in 1636, when Harvard College was founded in the young settlement of New Towne in Massachusetts, which had been settled in 1630. New Towne was organized as a town on the founding of the university, and changed its name two years later to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in honor ...

  7. Hyperbolic discounting - Wikipedia

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    Hyperbolic discounting is mathematically described as. where g ( D) is the discount factor that multiplies the value of the reward, D is the delay in the reward, and k is a parameter governing the degree of discounting (for example, the interest rate ). This is compared with the formula for exponential discounting:

  8. Chris Argyris - Wikipedia

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    Chris Argyris (July 16, 1923 – November 16, 2013 [1]) was an American business theorist and professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School.Argyris, like Richard Beckhard, Edgar Schein and Warren Bennis, [citation needed] is known as a co-founder of organization development, and known for seminal work on learning organizations.

  9. Massive open online course - Wikipedia

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    A massive open online course ( MOOC / muːk /) or an open online course is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the Web. [ 1] In addition to traditional course materials, such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive courses with user forums or social media discussions to ...