Word: ceeb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the CEEB will remain a requirement for all applicants to the College, the American College Testing Program may "provide useful additional information" for evaluating students from areas of the country where it is difficult to gather a large amount of material, Dean Bender said. It will take several years for adequate correlatives to be established between the new program and the older tests, however...
...article in the College Board Review, King asks, "Have the financial arms of the CEEB colleges been pulling hidden talent from oblivion or have we just been lifting candidates from each other's back pockets?" King goes on to point out that by far the majority of scholarship applicants at Harvard and equivalent colleges are students who will go to college somewhere else if they are denied aid. "I would be reasonably certain," King writes, "that at no College Scholarship Service college do as many as half the scholarship winners come from the neediest half of our nation's population...
...program so new, complications are prevalent and unavoidable. There is at this time no rapport between the College Board's concept of an advanced education in Romance Languages and the University's. Even in composition, seemingly an area definite enough to admit of clear-cut levels of attainment, the CEEB and Harvard are miles apart. This fall, students who had passed, even with honors, the composition (or "Language") portions of College Board Advanced Placement Tests in Romance Languages had absolutely no assurance of eventual Advanced Placement...
...Literature department, the casuality rate was at least as high. This May there will be a new attempt by the CEEB to produce adequate tests in the Romance Languages. Whether the College Board will ever succeed in establishing mutual standards among high schools, colleges, and its tests remains to be seen...
...Board, Judson T. Shaplin '42, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Education, said students should have "a basis of known standards" for all college requirements. Students will now be able to gauge more accurately their chances of admission in terms of at least one of these standards, the CEEB tests...