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According to Taylor, college admissions offices play a role in the flawed college application process, too.

Ivy Coach’s Taylor, who works with both athletes and non-athletes in the college admissions process, cited pandemic-induced cuts to varsity teams — as opposed to the cancellation of seasons — as the major concern weighing on recruits.

Taylor said both early and regular application numbers tend to rise at every Ivy League college each year with only a few notable exceptions.

Taylor, director of Ivy Coach, a New York-based college consulting firm, did not think that Yale’s expansion was “interesting enough data” to influence students’ decisions to apply early action or regular admission.

Taylor said SFFA and the Asian American Coalition for Education — a group consisting of over 100 organizations that has also been involved in litigating on behalf of Asian-American college applicants — do not have legal arguments and strategies strong enough to win their cases.

Taylor, director of New York-based college consulting firm Ivy Coach, said that Yale’s additional application question will only encourage students to be boastful about their personal qualities.