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Many of the professors quoted think that contact with students is impossible or pointless. If they're right, then Harvard is not what we think it is; admissions brochures should advertise a student faculty ratio of us thousand to none...
Beneath all the rhetoric about equal access, one fact stands out: there will be no noticeable improvement in the present 2.3 to 1 male-female ratio for at least three more years...
...attempt to "let nature have its chance to work a balance here." Cheever explains that although the report mentions no quotas, it envisions a period when men and women will apply in equal numbers to the Med School and when the accepted class will reflect, in its ratio of men to women, the proportion of qualified men to qualified women in the applicant pool, even if that means accepting more women than...
...similar liberal dedication to goals and not quotas in its resolutions regarding minority acceptances. Here again, the admissions committee at the Medical School has over the last two years-apparently demonstrated good intentions, by accepting minority students in a reported 20-per-cent proportion that matches the nation's ratio. The Cheever report recommends that if anything, minority acceptances should exceed one fifth, to keep up with an increase in the proportion in the population of minorities below...
...places too much faith in the Medical School faculty and its admissions policies. Still, it must be hoped that the faculty, when it votes on the report next month, will approve the committee's statements regarding acceptances of women, then go further by instituting a one-to-one acceptance ratio...