Passage Two 　　Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage. 　　Early decision—you apply to one school, and admission is binding—seems like a great choice for nervous applicants. Schools let in a higher percentage of early-decision applicants, which arguably means that you have a better chance of getting in. And if you do, you’re done with the whole agonizing process by December. But what most students and parents don’t realize is that schools have hidden motives for offering early decision. 　　Early decision, since it’s binding, allows schools to fill their classes with qualified students; it allows admissions committees to select the students that are in particular demand for their college and know those students will come. It also gives schools a higher yield arte, which is often used as one of the way to measure college selectivity and popularity. 　　The problem is that this process effectively shortens the window of time students have to make one of the most important decisions of their lives up to that point. Under regular admissions, X have until May 1 to choose which school to attend; early decision effectively steals six X from them, months that could be used to visit more schools, do more research, speak to X students and alumni(校友)and arguably make a more informed decision. 　　There are, frankly, an astonishing number of exceptional colleges in America, and for any given student, there are a number of schools that are a great fit. When students become too fixation(专注)on a particular school early in the admissions process, that fixation can lead to severe XXX, if they do, the possibility that are now X to go to a XXX be right for them. 　　X who have done their research and are confident that there XX to get into should, under the current system, probably apply XX students who haven’t yet done enough research, or who are still constant XX favorite schools, the early-decision system needlessly and prematurely XX just at a time when students should be opening themselves to XX options. Why are some people opposed to early decision