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Total applications number 11,260 in a roughly 2 to 1 male-female ratio. Last year, less than 11,000 students applied to the colleges in a 2.3 to 1 male-female ratio. This is the first time the newly-combined Harvard-Radcliffe Admissions Office will admit students under an equal access program...
Though the male-female ratio of the minority applicants has not yet been determined, Jewett said he believes the numbers of black women applying had declined, and the numbers of Spanish-speaking women applicants had risen...
...weeks before the New Hampshire primary to 65% at present. Among those voters who are familiar with Carter, the percentage who feel he has a good chance of becoming the Democratic candidate has increased from 18% to 45%. Of all the Democratic contenders, Carter has the most favorable acceptability ratio: 42% of the voters find him acceptable as the next President while only 23% do not. Humphrey, by comparison, is acceptable to 45% but unacceptable to 47% of the voters. Jackson is acceptable to 29% and unacceptable to 32%. The comparable figures for Udall are 20% and 31%. Wallace runs...
...minutes also touch on educational stagnation within the GSD, which in many ways grows from budget balancing moves that have boosted the ratio of student to faculty from 8.3 to 1 in 1969 to 11.5 to 1 this year. For example, the visiting committee record refers to the panel members' "impression of a pervading boredom and lack of excitement." Similarly, the minutes indicate that "several members" saw a need to find a new dean who can "stimulate the sense of purpose and mission which the committee found lacking in both faculty and students, as well as to attract a higher...
What is more unfortunate and most ironic about the dean's "minor alteration" is that it, like CHUL's suggestion to raise the Quad sex ratio, appears likely to exacerbate rather than solve the housing problem. Not only will freshmen with high lottery numbers be assigned to a Quad House which they very likely ranked 11th or 12th, but it is also conceivable that roommate groups whose first choice is a Quad House will not be assigned there...