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...time high of 3623 prospective freshmen have applied for admission to the Class of 1959, and the Admissions Office expects about 500 more applications, Dean Bender reported yesterday...
...sharp rise in numbers is somewhat unexpected, since the Admissions Office had thought that the new process of tentative selection would discourage badly-qualified students from applying, Bender said...
...past experience holds," Bender said, the final figure should exceed the 4000 mark, a rise of almost 500 over last year's record total of 3546. The present figure does not include early admission candidates or transfer students, but will be subject to last-minute withdrawals, he added...
Since the office has not found any noticeable increases in applications from particular areas or secondary schools, the rise is apparently a result of small increases from a large number of schools, Bender said. He also stated that the Board of Admissions has started earlier than usual on preliminary readings of applications in order to cope with the record number...
Processing and analyzing the applications will take almost two months, and "It will be some time before we know definitely what this is all about," Bender predicted. "We have numbers; we don't know if we have quality," he added...