Word: filed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Learning Exchange since it was set up four years ago. Now on the second floor of an Episcopal church in Evanston, the exchange is financed by several small grants from foundations; it has four full-time staff members, four telephones, and an information bank of 30,000 file cards that list the names and numbers of prospective students and teachers interested in more than 2,000 subjects-including such off-beat avocations as fire eating, flying saucers and fox hunting. Says Vice Chairman Denis Detzel: "The calls are an excellent way of keeping track of what people are into." When...
Once an application is complete in all respects (i.e. teacher reports, test scores, etc. are in), it is removed from the office's "dead file" and released to be read by admission officials. An application generally gets two, sometimes three preliminary readings. An official is put in charge of applications from each area of the country and is responsible for reading all the cases from that section...
...Whitla, associate director of admissions, codes this information computer use and spins out a computerized "docket" listing each candidate's name, his ranking from readers and school officials, test scores, race and alumni connections. When each case is considered in committee, only the official presenting it will have the file, but every one has the docket in front of him, supplying him with hard numerical information about the applicant...
Admissions officials explained that the first reader of each file classifies the applicant as either white, black, Oriental, Indian or Latin on the basis of a student's participation in a scholarship program for minorities, the kinds of books he reads (i.e., Langston Hughes is a giveaway) and his high school background. Jewett said that sometimes the interviewer uses phrases like "Despite his being a minority student...
...Reardon described the incident. "She told my secretary that she was sure I wouldn't see her, but that she was going to sit all summer or until they admitted her son." As a matter of policy, the admissions offices never reconsider a case unless information in the file is proved false. The woman kept her promise for a while, and the admissions office kept theirs...