Word: toepfer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Applications for the entering class at the Law School have already reached an all time high, 1,660, with more still coming, Assistant Dean Louis A. Toepfer, director of admissions, announced yesterday...
...addition, Toepfer reported, veterans will pries almost one third of the class. The Law School intends to admit about 200 veterans, as compared to 110 admitted last year. Of this year's probable total of 200, 168 have already been admitted, Toepfer said...
...admissions officers at the Harvard Law, Medical and Business School all consider the ETS tests as a useful guide in determining the merits of an applicant, But both Lewis B. Ward, Business School Director of Admissions and Louis A. Toepfer, director of Admissions at the Law School rate it subordinate to the student's college grades. Toepfer also noted that a low score on the admissions test does not necessarily mean a low aptitude for law. Kendall Emerson, Jr., who is in charge of admissions for the Medical School, uses the ETS medical exam primarily as a screening test with...
Scholarship awards in the past five years have jumped from $70,0000 to $155,000, and will continue to rise this year. The Law School, says Toepfer, "is interested in enabling the qualified students to get in, regardless of their financial position. He added that the School is also more interested in the prospective entrant's capacity for the law, as shown in his admissions test, than in what he has already done in college...
...leaving the armed services are probably the main reason for the School's sharp rise in applications. Increased scholarship and financial aid to students as well as what Toepfer calls "the Law School's Renaissance" also appear to be important factors...