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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...
...question dealing with student impressions of the political opinions of faculty members and fellow students was eliminated because some teachers and students felt it was "an invasion of privacy," said Office of Tests director Dean K. Whitla...
...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...
Glimp added that the use of PRL in admissions is limited by its degree of inaccuracy. But this error is smaller than that of most similar indices, according to Whitla. "Given the narrowness of the range it's pretty good, but you can see how easy it is for the prediction to be wrong." Glimp said. "PRL can't consider any sort of family problems or emotional pressures or what type of courses the guy's going to take at Harvard...
...expect a case like that every now and then," Whitla said. "After all, if PRL was right on the nose every time, there wouldn't be any sense in grading people after they got here, now would there...