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Often switching careers is a "magnificent success," says U.C.L.A. Education Placement Director Claude Fossett, and occasionally "men fall flat on their faces." The reasons for change, although obviously sometimes altruistic, sometimes self-seeking and almost always highly personal, are not well understood. Perhaps eventually the Columbia project, financed by a $100,000 Ford Foundation grant, will illuminate the motivations and prospects of those who are hopelessly dissatisfied with life at midcareer...
...case a local draft board did not consider a four-course curriculum as meeting the minimum work load requirement for a student deferment. Another draft board did not understand Harvard's advanced placement system...
...students offered advanced placement, 113 -- or about 54 per cent -- turned it down. Last year, only 41 per cent of the students offered the chance to skip a year chose...
...improvement in the freshman counseling system may have also contributed to the rise in rejections, Wilcox noted. Freshmen with sophomore standing were assigned to special proctors this year. Wilcox then met with these proctors and explained the details of the advanced placement program. "I think we did a better job of giving people the facts," he said...
...advanced placement program began at Harvard in 1955 when two students were offered sophomore standing. Both of them accepted. Last year 526 students received some A.P. credit -- though only 190 of them passed the three tests required for sophomore standing. The program was originally intended to serve as an incentive to secondary schools to up-grade their curriculum...