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...Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, will be in charge of "developing a capability for evaluating experimental programs and ventures in order to determine whether they are achieving their educational objectives." Bok said...
Harvard's expected yield is calculated scientifically each winter by Dean K. Whitla '52, director of the Office of Tests who has a Ph.D. in statistics...
...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...