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Before it slipped into the annals of Harvard committees, the 1975 CHUL had agreed to recommend that the male-to-female ratio be fixed at 1.5-to-1 in four resident Houses and as close as possible to 3-to-1 in all the remaining eight. Currier, North and South Houses are now theoretically on a 1.18-to-1 male-female ratio. The committee's other final proposal asked that each freshman be "fruitfully affiliated" with a House throughout the freshman year and endorsed continued upgrading of facilities and services in the Quad area...
...Quad's popularity problem is a switch from the appeal it had in the first years of co-educational housing. For several years after 1971 there were always Harvard students ready to walk the extra distance to the Quad for the attractive sex ratio, four-class housing and other enticements...
...River Houses have gone co-ed and in some the sex ratio has dropped down to about 2.5-to-1. This change has neutralized what had been the Quad's biggest selling point. Little has been done to date to make the Quad more attractive, such as adopting all-day shuttle bus services, although the administration is planning some renovations of North and South Houses...
Preliminary analyses of applications to the Class of 1980 indicate that the ratio of female to male applicants has climbed under equal access admissions, but that minority applications may fall short of last year's total...
...Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, said yesterday that the ratio of female to male applicants has run steadily at 1 to 2 this fall--as compared with a 1 to 2.3 ratio last year--and that the women's applications "look statistically very strong...