Word: whitla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dean C. Whitla, director of the study and of Harvard's Office of Tests, however, were concerned about the effects of the three year program on "the socio-economic mix of the College and Harvard's willingness to take admissions risks...
...Whitla said that with the three year program, the "admission committee might be less likely to gamble on students from disadvantaged backgrounds" who would be forced to "do four years of work in three years...
...student has A. P. training," Whitla added, "the three year degree makes sense, But this is dependent on where you go to school and such a program would not do justice to those students who have not had much educational opportunity...
Taking the current pool of applicants, the study-released last week by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests and associate director of Admissions-runs through a variety of admissions criteria, superimposing Harvard's practices on the Radcliffe applicant group and Radcliffe's practices on the Harvard group...
...Whitla has been working on the ques-tionnaire with chairmen of the House curriculum committees since January. The questionnaire was first administered to a random sampling of students and was then revised in accordance with their comments...