Word: rank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courses and to treat all courses simply as obstacles on the way to a degree and a graduate school. To avoid adding to the pressure of grades, the University has in the past wisely ignored the demands of many institutions and programs which request class rank information from applicants...
Harvard originally planned to send class ranks directly to draft boards if individual students so requested. Recently the University sought to dissociate itself from the Selective Service System by deciding to send class rank information only to students. But no amount of twisting and turning can disguise two facts: First, no student enjoys more than the shadow of choice if the University begins distributing class ranks; many, perhaps most, of those students who decide not to supply their boards with the available information will be suspected and penalized by the local boards. Second, several years ago the University ceased figuring...
...suggested that ignoring the Selective Service in the same way would be "irresponsible." The spectre of civil disobedience is raised; one is urged to consider the consequences of a "great university breaking the law." This is nonsense. There is nothing in the draft law requiring the university to computer rank lists. Civil disobedience is hardly involved. The fact that the Selective Service System is a governmentinstitution should have no effect on Harvard's general policy; the National Science Foundation is also government-run, and the University refuses to provide it with class rank information. The charge of "irresponsibility" is also...
Some students will obviously be hurt by this policy: Those with very high grades and very low draft exam scores. This is, however, a very small group, far smaller than the group which would be hurt by the release of class rank information. It can be argued of course that all students will be penalized by the withholding policy, for it is possible that draft boards will become incensed at Harvard's stubbornness and take out their displeasure on the individual students. Despite its reputation, however, the local board is rarely so irrational as this. In the final analysis...
...improvement of Harvard student's average grades and average PRL (Predicted Rank List). Preliminary studies show, Ford said, that the average grade has risen from a C plus to a B minus over the past 20 years. The Committee will want to see whether the grade increases coincide with the higher...