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Hanson told a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that the College must "come to terms" with College Entrance Examination Board standards for freshman courses. In May, 1956, the CEEB will begin testing all secondary school students seeking advanced placement in CEEB member colleges...
...Every time we find it necessary to differ with the public syllabus for these courses, we confuse the problem for the secondary schools," Hanson said. Five of Harvard's departments have accepted the examinations and standards of the CEEB, but four have special requirements for omitting elementary courses...
...impractical, however, both because of the prohibitive cost and the shortage of qualified people. An alternative would be to spread out the applications, so present staffs could read them throughout the year, rather than in a mad four-week race. Technically, at least, this would be immediately possible. The CEEB approved a September test series at its recent meeting; other exams could also be added making it possible for college applicants to take the Boards at almost any time of the year. It is also possible, with a reasonable degree of accuracy, to predict what a student who takes...
Hanson pointed out that the CEEB program contains the proviso that individual colleges have the right to accept or reject the results of the new tests...
...broadening the eligibility for the advance tests in the hands of the CEEB, advance placement has changed from a faculty-to-faculty process to a student-to-college process. Hanson feels the new program will also let hundreds of self-taught students apply for advance placement...