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...admissions men. Princeton's Director Edwards turned down one father's offer of a $500,000 geology building, along with his son. Not even a proffered letter from the President of the U.S. on behalf of one applicant moved M.I.T.'s Director of Admissions B. Alden Thresher ("The thicker the folder, the thicker the student"). He insisted on a letter from a math teacher instead. And the point has sunk in. Says Amherst's Dean of Admission Eugene S. Wilson: "I haven't had any payola offered to me in years-not even a chocolate...
When should college planning begin? Parents may ponder the answer of M.I.T.'s Director Thresher: "At approximately the age of one year." Thresher warns parents who set impossible goals: "There is no surer prescription for failure in college." He means only that a child's innate curiosity should be nurtured sanely from the start. If he grows up wanting to learn, "he does not have to be 'entered' in a college. He enters himself...
...Alden Thresher, Director of Admissions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, registered enthusiastic support for Wessell's statements. "Perhaps an able student body is more important than a diversified one," he noted. M.I.T.'s student body is a naturally diversified one, he said...
...Thresher attributed the decline in applications to a ten dollar application fee instituted this year...
...Thresher said that M.I.T. had for the past few years placed less emphasis on "overmotivation" of selected applicants and has been paying more attention to "non-intellectual factors...