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Although the avalanche alarmed the Admissions Committee at first, Glimp expects that when all applications are in, the increase will be only about ten per cent over last year's figure--or a total of 6400 applications for about 1200 places...
Applications for next year's freshman class are running about 20 per cent ahead of the number received by this time last year, Fred L. Glimp '50, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids, said last night...
...statisticians warned that we should look out for last year and this year," Glimp explained, "and we were prepared for a substantial increase." He added, in the class. however, that he "would shudder at the thought of an overall increase of 20 per cent this year...
...Glimp warned that although PRL is a "great aid" to the admissions process, "We must remember that it's only one of many things we're looking for. There are a lot of guys more interesting and more desirable than the potential summa. But if you get somebody with a 1.6 who looks like he'll hang together for four years you've got to take...
...Glimp added that the use of PRL in admissions is limited by its degree of inaccuracy. But this error is smaller than that of most similar indices, according to Whitla. "Given the narrowness of the range it's pretty good, but you can see how easy it is for the prediction to be wrong," Glimp said. "PRL can't consider any sort of family problems or emotional pressures or what type of courses the guy's going to take at Harvard...