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Asked to explain the School's criteria for admission, Emerson said yesterday that the ultimate decision is based on the admissions board's opinion of the prospective student's character and overall suitability for medicine. The Medical School admissions aptitude test and the student's academic grades, he added, serve only as a means to eliminate questionable applicants...
...integrating the junior year abroad with the years at Harvard. Assuredly there will be. But may one not assume that a particular student, of exceptional ability and with exceptional interest, is able, with the assistance of his department, to make the necessary adjustments? Should we judge the proposal by criteria drawn from facts about the majority of students? It in fact concerns only individuals, and there is not one of the objection listed above which may not be overcome by a student of the necessary qualifications. Why then is an absolute of the necessary qualifications. Why then is an absolute...
...criteria for advanced placement within the Departments involved, the Faculty suggested College Entrance Examination Boards, placement tests conducted at the College, and secondary school records...
...centered on individual qualification. Yesterday's proposals were purposely vague; the Committee is given sweeping power to map out details. The first years will necessarily be marked by the slow progress of trial and error. But consideration of the individual should never give way to a set of blanker criteria for advanced placement or course reduction. In every case, final decisions should be made on a personal basis, not on test scores...
Applicants to the Business School are chosen on three main criteria: college record; personal interviews, preferably two with members of the Admissions Board; and replies given to questions in the six-page admission application blank...