Word: transfering
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Under the current transfer system, if Housing Office guidelines fail to distinguish between transfer applicants, masters may choose among applicants on whatever basis they desire...
...recent health education law requires that, starting next fall, America's 119 medical schools must accept as third-year transfer students some 1,500 Americans who have been studying medicine overseas. If the U.S. medical schools do not comply, they stand to lose federal aid amounting to $1,400 a student a year. The Association of American Medical Colleges (A.A.M.C.) unanimously condemned the law when it was passed last year as an unwarranted intrusion into the admissions process. Now 18 of the more famous and affluent schools-including Yale, Harvard, Cornell and Stanford-have formally notified the Department...
...schools' major objection to the law is that they will have no voice in the transfer process: HEW, in fact, will summarily assign eligible students to existing openings. Med schools rarely accept transfers anyway, since very few good students tend to drop out. Thus the schools, which A.A.M.C. says have doubled their enrollment in the past decade, will be forced to fit even more students into facilities already filled to capacity. More important, many of the foreign medical schools are considered inadequate by U.S. standards, and many Americans studying medicine there are likely to be rejects from U.S. schools...
...Environment is planning a hearing to consider possible amendments to the law. One, sponsored by the subcommittee chairman, Representative Paul Rogers of Florida, would force medical schools to expand their third-year classes by 5%-or ten students-whichever figure is greater, but would let them select the transfers themselves. Under another amendment, backed by the A.A.M.C., schools would choose their own transfer students and get paid for them as a bonus, but nobody would be required to take on third-year students...
...most recent transfer from Hamilton to Cambridge is Clemens, who, before becoming Harvard's linebacker coach three years ago, served as the Red Raiders' defensive coordinator and coordinator for recruiting...