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Admission to Radcliffe or Harvard from another college is even more competitive than admission to either college as a freshman and "academic credentials are far and away the most important criteria" according to Calvin N. Mosley, associate director of admissions for transfers and special students. Mosley says that one year he stopped counting when the number of unsuccessful applicants with 4.0 averages reached...
...Mosley estimates that there will be between 30 and 50 resident places available to transfers for 1975-76. Harvard expects to receive over 400 applicants; Radcliffe, according to Louise A. Cohen, associate director of Admissions, about 200. This year for the first time transfers to Harvard and Radcliffe will be admitted under an equal access policy supervised jointly by the admissions offices of the two colleges. The experiment is conceived as a dry run for the full merger of the two offices that seems almost certain in the near future...
...increased numbers of non-residents are admitted, it will represent a marked departure from Harvard's past policy, though not from Radcliffe's. Many other colleges--University of Pennsylvania. Yale and MIT, for example--admit greater numbers of transfer students particularly non-resident transfers, than does Harvard, Mosley says...
Transfers have traditionally been looked upon as an easy way of raising revenue and counteracting high tuition rates. Because of Harvard's extremely low attrition rate and its wealth, it has ben relatively immune to such pressures in the past. "Now," says Mosley, "we're to the point" where, because of recent deficits and changes in attitudes, transfers are looked at as a means of producing income and responding to the needs of undersubscribed departments. There is less reluctance now to offer the education without the place to live...
...Both Mosley and Cohen also stress that the admissions committees are biased toward applicants from non-Ivy League schools. "We hope to find people who have come from junior or community colleges and really need the richer opportunities Radcliffe provides," explains Cohen. "Social value admits" is what Mosley calls these students...