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According to Dean K. Whitla, Director of the Office of Tests, to get a 1.4 rating a student must "rank first in a class of about 1000 and have all 800 board scores. So it's obvious that we seldom predict a boy for group...
...Whitla said that a PRL of 6.0--a prediction of unsatisfactory performance--is generally the cut-off point for applicants, although exceptions are sometimes made, particularly in the case of foreign-born students or students coming from a disadvantaged background...
Aptitude is more heavily weighted in public schools because the quality of instruction is slightly lower. But according to Whitla, with each revision of the PRL formula the percentages come closer to identy, "probably because the teaching in public schools is improving...
...curiosity of the formula is the omission of the College Board mathematical aptitude score, considered very important by most high school advisors. Whitla said that the score is left out because experiments have shown that including it does not in crease the PRL formula's ability to predict...
Goodman goes on to treat a number of Harvard people as if they were members of a conspiracy. James Conant, Jerome Bruner, Graham Blaine, Dr. Resnick of the Ed School, and Dean Whitla from the Office of Tests all have a hand in enforcing in loco parentis, and putting on public relations. "The University," Goodman laments, "which should be the dissident and the poor has become the Establishment. The streets are full of its monks . . . What a bad scene. Its spirit pervades all of society...