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...advanced placement plan, which affects many more students, is not concerned with admission procedure. The program enables those freshmen with strong backgrounds in one or two fields to take upper level courses in these subjects. Besides enabling the freshman to enroll in more advanced courses, advanced placement carries the Office's vague encouragement to him to work for course reduction in his junior and senior years...
...which a course system for 4,500 students can impose on the more qualified individual. From the Office of Advanced Standing upstairs in University Hall, director Harlan P. Hanson coordinates the four loosely connected plans which make up the program. Each of its facets, early admission, sophomore standing, advanced placement, and course reduction, is intended to contribute to a more challenging program for the student...
Sophomore standing, early admission and advanced placement center around the better prepared freshmen. Because they have completed college-level courses in high school, some incoming students are able to enter the sophomore class, and a few qualified juniors have been able to skip their last year of high school. The early admission and sophomore standing programs eliminate from high school or college a year which the Office of Advanced Standing feels would be wasteful in educational value...
...course reduction program is the only part of the Advanced Standing system which is unique to the College's curriculum. While early admission and advanced placement criteria are determined in conjunction with the high schools or the College Entrance Examination Board, only juniors and seniors are eligible for course reduction...
While there are only 20 students in the program this semester--the largest groups being in history and literature and social relations--when members of the class of '60 become juniors there will probably be a sizable increase. For the 130 freshmen who qualified for advanced placement this past year were notified by Hanson that they were "particularly eligible" to apply for course reduction if they became honors candidates...