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Were it not for the new equal access policy and the resulting 1.9:1 sex ratio, the large crop of Chicanos admitted to next year's class would have been the success story of the class of 1980. Byerly Hall admitted 32 Chicanos to next year's freshman class, nearly double the 18 accepted last year, and the largest number of Mexican-Americans ever admitted. These totals are the product of an intense recruitment effort that was unique in many ways, most notably the role undergraduates played...
...surprised they were when the male-female ratio for the Class of 1980--the first class in the College's history to be admitted under a policy of equal access--turned out to be 1.9 to 1. That's an all-time low ratio resulting from an all-time low ratio resulting from an 18-per-cent increase in the number of women admitted to the College...
...Strauch Committee report, approved last May, recommended a reduction of the present 2.3-to-1 sex ratio through just this process, as corollaries to the major recommendations of access and a merger of the admissions offices...
Jewett expects about 1575 of the 2152 accepted students to enroll next fall, and he thinks the sex ratio will rise slightly to about 2 to 1 if fewer accepted women choose to attend Harvard, as they traditionally...
...meet, agencies have been forced to slash their staffs from an estimated 41,000 five years ago to 36,000 now. Advertising Age, the leading trade publication, found in a recent survey that 77 major agencies now average about four staffers for every $1 million in billings, the lowest ratio ever. In 1970, agencies generally had six employees for every $1 million in billings...