Word: medians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aptitude tests, Harvard is not certain that it "bought" the right commodity. "Skill in taking such tests may be emerging as a national attribute," complained a Harvard faculty committee on college admission policy last week. The scores rise year by year: Harvard's current freshman class's median score was 691 on the math aptitude test, almost 100 points higher than the class of 1956. But real "intellectual promise" may be something else, suggested the committee. And all the emphasis on numbers has an ominous effect: "Who can say how many gifted youngsters are frightened away from Harvard...