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Iowa has, however, a program which attempts to eliminate these inadequacies. By administering IQ tests from first grade on, and comparing scores with classroom achievements, the educators can discover the student who is unmotivated. While IQ tests are very imperfect measures of ability, they can show who has ability and is not working...
...given, but counsellors could be given information with which to make rough guesses. Colleges have been justifiably hesitant in releasing statistics, feeling that they would lead to a stereotyped student, discouraging diverse applications. But they could release figures in percentiles, showing 33 percent of the students have IQ's below 80, 98 percent are on scholarship, 13 percent are sons of alumni, 98 percent live in Tuscaloosa, and none play football. This is surely better than allowing students to pick the wrong college, leaving voluntarily or otherwise after two months, or even more dangerous, letting misleading cliches like "paradise...
...headmaster had no reply. Emphasis in the school has shifted toward intellectually challenging the top half of the class. The others have to follow along the best they can--and must have a certain IQ not to flunk out. This situation disturbs the headmaster. His graduates have a very successful record in gaining admittance to college, but he has no idea where the school itself is heading. He fears that if the current emphasis on intellectual capabilities continues, the institution cannot survive in competition with large schools which can attract more easily first-rate students with their better facilities...
...Their background was strikingly typical of the 21. In her book 21 Stayed, Reporter Virginia Pasley reveals that 18 grew up in poverty, 16 came from small towns or rural communities, 17 did not finish high school, 20 were Regular Army volunteers, 16 had an average IQ or less, 15 were 21 or younger when captured, 11 lost their fathers when very young...
Arthur I. Reade, Jr., who has a genius IQ rating of 176, is "one of the youngest ever admitted to the University," Dean Bender said...