While most people talk about the end of standard early admissions programs at at schools such as Harvard and the University of Virginia, "so-called extreme admissions programs" have largely flown under the radar. These programs let students know as early as spring of the junior year whether they've been admitted.

The National Association of College Admissions Counselors has now banned such programs. No college is allowed to let students know whether they've been accepted before mid-September of senior year. 

Wednesday October 11, 2006