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Admissions officers say about one-half the applicant pool is clearly admissible. They rely on what admissions officers call the "tip factor"--a special advantage from the rest of the group--to select the final 2100 students...
...proposal, which "forgives" graduates earning below $15,000 a year of up to 50 per cent of their loans while extending the time in which an alumnus must repay the remainder, is only a first step. While it does free students somewhat to select a career in a low-income field, the proposal leaves major barriers intact. Even with the "forgiveness" policy, a graduate could owe the Law School $7000-$8000--more than half the yearly income of those for whom the proposal is designed...
...maximizing individual student potential and providing a liberal education. Several proposals before the Faculty attempt to do this. The plan proposed by William H. Bossert '59, McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics, would insure that each student is fully proficient in two separate areas of study, thus allowing students to select their own interests and eliminating narrow pre-professionalism. Frederick H. Abernathy, McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has proposed a plan that would offer students the guidance of the Core without depriving them of the freedom to design their own curriculum. Other Faculty suggestions include expanding the counseling program, providing more...
...balance. Although the new curriculum provides more structure than the existing General Education Program, the core itself will take up only a quarter of the entire undergraduate program, and the students will be free to choose among several courses in each required category. In addition, undergraduates will continue to select their own concentration and will have a quarter of their courses reserved for free elective choice...
...addition to all that, the IRS computers this year will select for audit, purely at random, 42,000 returns, or about one in 2,000, in order to develop a statistical profile of all taxpayers. The incomes of these audited taxpayers will range from the lowest to the highest; anyone is vulnerable. These audits will give the IRS the top-secret norms for deductions against which all returns will be judged...