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Harvard states it Judges academic ability mainly on two criteria, CEEB board scores and the school record. Fifty per cent of Harvard sons score below 650 on the verbal SAT as compared to 18 per cent of the others. Forty-six per cent of the preppies scored below 650 while only 12 per cent of the others did. In Loewen's Sample 61 per cent of the alumni sons fell below Group 3 compared with 32 per cent of the others. For preppies the trend was weaker but still obvious. Nineteen pre cent were Group 2 as compared with...
...Harvard Student Study Center shows that 34 per cent of the pubbies were first in their high school class, 73 per cent in the top five. And many public school classes are very large, some running into the thousands. A large majority of preppies were not in the top 20 per cent of their classes (not counting Andover and Exeter because they send about 50 students each and their data would be meaningless to this statistic...
...least the same. The median preppie family income was approximately $26,000: that of the pubbies, $17,00: the mean for preppies was $45,000; for pubbies, $32,000. The preppie median according to Loewen's survey is three and one-half times the national median and 56 per cent higher than the rest of Harvard undegraduates. The data also show that scholarships are almost exclusively a public school phenomenon...
...article in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin (9-20-61) entitled "The Top-One-Per-Cent Policy; A Hard Look at the Dangers of an Academically Elite Harvard," Bender states...
...that we can continue to do this provided we don't raise the present academic level too much and do maintain our relationship with the private schools and the Harvard family. It seems unlikely to me that we can bring this off if we adopt a top-one per cent policy with all that would imply for the relationship, atmosphere, and appeal of the college...