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...report states that in September 1961 Harvard received AP. candidates from over 200 different schools, and that these 540 persons composed about 45 per cent of the incoming class. Of these, 134 received AP in three or more subjects and were eligible for sophomore standing...
...Another prediction [in addition to shift in balance from private to public schools sending AP students to Harvard] seems to be working out. The number of advanced placement candidates at Harvard has begun to level off; the rate of increase has slowed down. Last year there were only ten more candidates than the year before--540 against 530--the number of examinations was substantially the same. This stabilization is, in my view, closely related to the nature of our applicant group and our admissions policy, and suggests that we may be reaching an upper limit in the number of advanced...
...presses innocent children into studies for which they are not prepared; when a tutor reports on a sophomore standing student whose performance on general examinations has fallen short of the summa he presumably would have had without the insidious pressures of advanced standing. Covertly the criticism gains strength when AP students are cautioned about intellectual arrogance and reminded that any Harvard course, even repeated work, has unique merit...
...remaining tables . . .are meant to demonstrate that AP students in middle-level courses are doing well and that the tragedy of sophomore standing--at least on the single dimension of academic performance--is a myth...
...could well be argued that we have given away the wrong year--because in fact the high-school AP course is generally a first course in concentration, and none can be regarded as comparable to our lower-level offerings in general education. But it is equally true that a Harvard undergraduate concentration, particularly since we introduced a required program of sophomore tutorial, is a linked three-year program and not easily broken...