Word: whitla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this outsider relies instead primarily on the "academic" rating, he is likely to make a lot more wrong guesses than right ones. Dean K. Whitla of the Office of Tests shows in an essay soon to be published that for the Class of 1968, there is just about no correlation between admission to Harvard and such factors as SAT scores, rank-in-class, and predicted rank list. The correlation between admissions and the personal factor is better than 90 percent...
...folder, after which a preliminary decision is made in a small sub-committee responsible for a geographical area. If a student is rejected at this level, he is probably through. His case will not even be presented before the full admissions committee unless new evidence becomes available or, as Whitla puts it, "the advocate decides after sleeping on it that he didn't argue a certain case effectively in the area committee...
...gets heated," Whitla says. "A guy gets disgusted because someone else can't see his point. By the time the whole thing is over, you know everyone on the committee and where his psyche...
...teaching fellows were drawn from the German, Romance Languages, and Mathematics Departments, and from the Expository Writing program. But they showed no tendency to split along departmental lines, Whitla said...
...mock committee was only a trial, Whitla said, but it may be repeated if there is "serious interest...