Word: bender
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...Bender said that the Admissions Committee will "go through our docket"--with special attention to applications from voluntary commuters--and then report back to Bundy, who will make the final decision on how many students to admit...
...Class of '63 will include "at least 50 and perhaps 75 more students" than its immediate predecessor, Dean Bender revealed yesterday. This increase of around five per cent means that a record-breaking class of over 1200 will enroll in September...
Dean Bundy announced this decision to Bender as the Admissions Committee began its fortnight-long task of evaluating thousands of applications. In the past, Bundy has provided a "definite target to shoot for," said Bender, but this year he gave the Committee only a "tentative working figure, subject to revision...
...situation is further complicated by the rapid upward trend of Advanced Placement students. In the last three year, participants in this program have increased from 13 to 31 to 55, and this trend, said Bender, "indicates that we may have around 80 Advanced Placement students" enrolling this fall...
First of all, there is the problem of numbers. Dean Wilbur J. Bender, Chairman of the Admissions and Scholarships Committee, is perhaps the most worried about this problem. He has seen the number of applications rise to around 4,500 this year and is concerned with the Committee's ability to measure "the subjective factor," creative intellectual ability, in applicants numbering perhaps 10,000. "It's a question of how much money the College can afford to spend on admissions," he says, "We are spending too much money now as it is and we are barely able to keep afloat...