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Early this morning the Harvard-Radcliffe Admissions Office mailed 2125 of its handwritten acceptance certificates to the students who were admitted for the Class of 1981 in an all-time low male-female ratio...
Last year the ratio dropped from 1975's 2.3-to-1 to 1.9-to-1 and this year--the second under the sex blind equal access policy--shows a continuing trend towards a more balanced sex ratio at the College, Mary Anne Schwalbe '55, director of admissions, said this week...
...said that the movement toward an equal male-female ratio will be "gradual, maybe a percentage point a year. It'll take a couple more years for us to get a 1.5-to-1 ratio and it will probably level off there...
Although the review committee commends the admissions office for its efforts to recruit qualified women, it does not predict how long it will take the College to achieve a one-to-one ratio...
...Government to order many factories and power plants to convert from natural gas to coal as a fuel (TIME cover, April 4). Even by simple arithmetic, B & W is an attractive acquisition candidate. In 1976 it earned $53 million on revenues of $1.7 billion-a profits-to-sales ratio slightly higher than United's own. Some Wall Street analysts are prepared to recommend purchase of United's stock to their clients if Gray can bring off the acquisition...