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...reason for the despair is obvious enough: in terms of academic capabilities there is often little to choose from among applicants. Humphrey Doermann '52, Director of Admissions, estimates that 95 per cent of the candidates could do the work at Harvard--which means there are three qualified applicants for every place in the freshman class...
...Doermann '52, director of , said the fact that most top already go on to college from school is a reason for the smaller in particularly well-qualified . He added that schools sending students each year to the try to discourage students less to be accepted from applying. two factors, he said, "tend to a great and sudden change in the of applicants...
...students now throng the 600 or so U.S. campuses that offer such study. "It was the high school diploma in 1900, the B.A. around 1940, and it looks now as if the M.A. or even the Ph.D. is the thing," says Harvard College's Director of Admissions Humphrey Doermann. Moreover, those who earn doctorates (currently about 11,000 a year) are in for even more of it. To keep up with fast-changing fields, some 22,000 to 25,000 Americans are now involved in the burgeoning world of "postdoctoral studies" to overhaul outdated degrees...
...Doermann said, however, that there might still be a sharp drop-off in the acceptance rate before the May 1 deadline. More than 450 of the incoming group are still to be heard from. In any case, the larger percentage of admitted students planning to come to the College will not result in overcrowding until the number of acceptances is 50 more than anticipated...
...Doermann called the deviation of 30 out of 1450 insignificant. "It would be hard to give a reason for the higher yield," he said, but he named Harvard's increasingly good reputation and effects of alumni recruiting activities as contributing factors...