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OIRE director Dean K. Whitla said it would be "very helpful in getting a sense of various undergraduate activities, education and extracurriculars...
...This is an opportunity for the undergraduates really to express their opinions in a formal sense to the community as a whole," Whitla said...
...Whitla survey, according to the Globe, was returned by 1,409 Harvard freshman. By its very nature, this "universe" is hardly an average sampling of SAT candidates. At a school as selective as Harvard, a smaller percentage of students will seek or benefit from formal testing preparation. (If the Globe article was accurate, 200 of those returning surveys took any form of preparation.) It seems obvious that startingly different statistics would have resulted if this study had been done at the University of Massachusetts...
Thank you for this opportunity to correct the impression your article may have given readers that I regard this survey as a laughing matter. In fact, I think the debate and further studies the Whitla report should spark will promote a long overdue investigation of the advantages of test preparation. I look forward to seeing the actual survey when it is released next month and to clarification on some of its findings. (The Globe article, for example, notes that the study's respondents included 69 percent who did not take coaching and 14 percent who did. This leaves a healthy...
...addition, senior administrators should not make unilateral decisions that affect us all as was the case with the Meese medal, when Allison ignored a faculty committee already set up to award the medals, and with the CUE guide, when Dean K. Whitla overruled the student editors...