Word: funkenstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conditions are anything but grim," despite the number of rejections issued this year to Harvard students, according to Dr. Daniel H. Funkenstein, assistant professor of Psychiatry and member of the Admissions Committee to the Harvard Medical School. It is generally felt that the Class of 1964 contains exceptionally good medical school candidates. This year, Harvard Med accepted 48 Harvard seniors for a class of 114, compared to last year's figure of 24 acceptances...
...However, Funkenstein could not give a reason for the decreasing number of applicants to Harvard and to schools all over the country. "That is what we would like to know," he said. He noted a similar trend in other graduate schools, especially in engineering...
...would help, Funkenstein said, if state schools could accept students from other states. If only by increasing the number of applicants, such a move would probably raise the standards of admission. However, interference with state schools would require legislation...
Harvard has usually been unique, Funkenstein declared, since almost 25 per cent of every College class in the past used to prepare for medicine...
Because of the drop in qualified applicants, Funkenstein added, schools are forced to accept students whom they know cannot pass. Thus, the failure rate in medical schools has increased by one-third. Despite hopes that the opening of the Seton Hall and Albert Einstein medical schools would attract more students, no substantial improvement has yet occurred, he said...