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...year before he entered it, school authorities refused to move him along faster than other students. "The school just wasn't going along with what I intended to do," he says. "I could see I was accomplishing more on my own, so I quit." He now studies advanced math and physics, takes a University of California correspondence course that will eventually net him a high school diploma...
...prepare himself even more thoroughly, Jerry stays after school two days a week for a special math course, and on Saturdays he travels 50 miles to Gustavus Adolphus College for a physics course...
There is the case of a bright small-town boy, son of a construction foreman in northern Wisconsin. He has straight A's in math and science, B's in English, and he wants to be an electrical engineer. The state university fits his pocketbook, but his dream is M.I.T. He should try M.I.T. (though his only-average college board score in English is a hazard), and he should also try Wisconsin's Ripon College (enrollment: 600). He may feel happier at Ripon because it is smaller and less expensive...
...pretty, sophisticated girl in suburban Scarsdale, N.Y., whose adman father ($30,000 a year) can afford to send her anywhere. He already has-to Britain, France, Italy-but she has never been west of Ohio. She writes well and hopes to be a magazine editor, but her math and science marks hover at C. Against stiff competition, she might barely get into an Eastern woman's college. But why not Northwestern, California's Mills College, or even the University of Hawaii? For her, each would offer much...
...that it "bought" the right commodity. "Skill in taking such tests may be emerging as a national attribute," complained a Harvard faculty committee on college admission policy last week. The scores rise year by year: Harvard's current freshman class's median score was 691 on the math aptitude test, almost 100 points higher than the class of 1956. But real "intellectual promise" may be something else, suggested the committee. And all the emphasis on numbers has an ominous effect: "Who can say how many gifted youngsters are frightened away from Harvard...