Word: whitla
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College admissions officials who continue to use the SAT recognize that it reflects more than innate factors, but argue that it remains a valuable common denominator with which to compare different students. Dean K. Whitla, associate dean of admissions here and a testing expert, dismisses that outlook. The SAT, argues Whitla, is merely an achievement test in subjects like reading; he maintains that "you could throw all the verbal SAT and English Achievement questions in a basket and you probably wouldn't be able to separate them again...
That group whose members are pushing for vigorous review of other lottery option seems to include Fox, Assistant Dean Thomas A. Dingman '67 and Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation who conducted both demographic studies...
Though racial gaps have closed somewhat over the last four years. Whitla's study projects nearly a sixfold difference between the House with the greatest percentage of Blacks (Currier, with 13 33 percent) and the one with the least (Eliot with 2 31 percent...
...initial demographic study in January measured the percentage of residents participating in a varsity sport, Kirkland the leader, led with 45 9 percent, with next door neighbor Eliot close behind. This time around, Whitla relied on a little known admissions office statistic the rating the office gives to prospective applicants evaluating the likelihood that they will participate in varsity sports...
...officials dismay Whitla post lottery study found that the proportion of students top ranked as athletes by the admissions office actually jumped in Kirkland from 18 89 percent to 22.94 percent. The College average is 7 51 per cent next year's lowest House. Lowell is projected to have but 1 28 percent...