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A record number of applicants will flood the College's Admissions Office, Fred L. Glimp '50, Dean of Admissions, predicted yesterday. In spite of the expected 5,500-5,700 applications, however, Glimp plans no major changes in admissions policy.
"As long as we're not going to use the IBM method of selection, we're going to plow through all folders," Glimp explained. The College's system of judging applicants on the basis of extensive reports received criticism last year from Wilbur J. Bender '28, former Dean of Admissions...
Glimp supported a possible policy of "pre-screening," by which a group of colleges would establish a centralized service that would, in turn, encourage and discourage prospective candidates. Such a screening organization would lessen some of the load on the College's Admissions Office.
Glimp hoped that any preliminary application form would be kept simple--"a page or so long." He favored a large number of schools co-operating in the program to make the system as widely effective as possible.
The low percentage of those polled who were planning to go to graduate schools was "surprising," Wilcox conceded, but he observed, "It is not necessarily the aim of the program to have everyone go on to professional school."