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...Dean Monro's recent proposal that universities join in setting up a project for recruiting gifted students with little educational opportunity makes a good deal of sense. As he says, the present admissions system is wasteful and insensitive, and, although no miracle will be wrought by Monro's plan, it shows an understanding of the fact that a truly democratic scholarship program will have to help motivate students as well as hand them checks after they've been accepted...
...ultimate social question in the case of scholarship students from poor or minority group families is that of motivation, how to break out of the vicious circle set up by the fact that people draw their values and dreams from the atmosphere in which they grow up. Last year, Monro expressed the kind of bind that admissions officers often get into: "You break your back getting some tough little kid from the slums to come here, you give him a full scholarship, and then he leaves in the middle of his freshman year because he just can't take...
...example of how such a program might function, Monro mentioned Junior High School No. 43 in New York's Harlem district. There, promising children with poor backgrounds are introduced to higher learning and given a chance at college under the auspices of NSSFNS, the College Entrance Examination Board, and the New York Board of Education...
Colleges are in most cases best equipped to develop patterns for talent-hunting in their own neighborhoods, Monro said. "If we could get a dozen colleges rolling on this, we would have the makings of a pilot program," he commented. At present, organizations like NSSFNS seek out promising students and negotiate with college admissions officers...
...Monro described the present system of academic talent-hunting as "wasteful and insensitive from grade to grad schools." He cited the principle of equality of opportunity for all people in his argument for the college-initiation program, concluding that "it is up to colleges to do work of this kind in their own localities...