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Wilcox said there are two primary uses in which he advises against accepting sophomore standing. The first concerns a student who wants to concentrate in a field in which he did not receive advanced placement. The situation places "virtually an absolute bind" on the undergraduate, since accepting sophomore standing would force him to participate in sophomore tutorial at the samethat he was taking the introductory course in that field...
Sophomore standing requires advanced placement in three subjects. The total number of students with advanced placements did not increase this year, in spite the 30 per cent rise in the number enough A.P.'s to become sophomores...
Edward T. Wilcox, director of advanced standing, said yesterday that the increase had stopped because the small group of secondary schools able to prepare students for advanced placement were now teaching virtually every candidate for Harvard enough to put him in upper level courses in at least one field...
Thus the admissions office, by deciding how many students from this group of schools will get into the College, also decides how many members of the incoming freshman class will be qualified to take advanced placement. The only way to change the advanced placement totals, Wilcox pointed out, is to change admissions policy...
...leveling in individual-subject advanced placement did not hold for sophomore standing. This year 132 students were eligible, and 103 accepted. Last years, the same totals were 96 and 88. One reason for the increased number of rejections, Wilcox said, was that for the first time this year there was a major effort to explain to students some of the disadvantages of sophomore standing...