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' " ' " ; MtDt'ORU MAu IHlbU.Nt. MiJiOHU, OlttlGON -,j tu. ', ..AlHoAhY 20, 1363 g j High School Seniors Start Sweating Out Admission to College By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Intetnational The next few weeks will be a period of high tension in more than . a million U.S. households where high school seniors are sweating out admission to college. Some colleges and uni versities are already send ing out acceptance notices. Many others will do so dur ing February and March. By April, students who haven't received a "yes" letter will be very worried -and so will their parents. It would be nice to as sure the troubled seniors and parents that they have no real cause for concern that everyone will wind up in the college of his choice. Now More Difficult ' But the facts don't per-' mit this. Getting into col lege has been growing pro gressively more difficult each year, as mounting en rollments press against the capacity of America's high er education system. In past years, it could be reported truthfully that, at though the big-name institu tions were swamped with applicants, there were still many good colleges and uni versities with vacancies. ' This year that statement cannot be made quite so glibly. "The first-rate institu tions, and even the second rate ones, are filling up fast," said an official of the American council on educa tion Students with good high school records can still be reasonably certain of ad mission to a good college -not necessarily their first or second choice, but one at which they can obtain a splendid education. Rumor Are Untrue The perennial rumors that circulate among high school seniors, to the effect that ' you have to make scores of 600 or better on "college board" entrance examinations to have a chance of getting into any TOY WORLD aPAW wi enn CLEARANCE OH1L SAVE up to 50 on Many Items 3 DAYS: SUNDAY-MON.-TUES. 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Admissions officers, even at the big-name colleges in the east, are much more flexible in their policies than that. And they are in creasingly disposed to re gard the student's high school record, rather than his entrance test, scores, as the best barometer of suc cess in college. "Any student who ranks in the upper 40 per cent of his high school graduating class - that would usually mean a 'B' average or better-has an excellent chance of getting into a good col lege this year," the Ameri can council on education official said. Will Accept Students There arc colleges and universities that will accept students who rank lower in their graduating classes, and some state institutions are required by law to take anyone with a high school diploma. But a C-student is going, to have trouble getting into any of the more select insti tutions, unless he has phe nomenally good scores on entrance tests or is able to show the admissions officer some other reason why he might be a good Ramble. Apply early iind often" is the motto of colleae- bound youngsters nowa days. Most begin firing off applications early in thcr senior year of high school. And it is increasingly cus tomary to send applications to at least three, and some times five or six, colleges. But this multiple appli cation habit has become such a problem for admis sions offices that many in stitutions now . require a fee of $10 or more with each application. In some cases, the fee is returnable if the student decides by late spring to withdraw his application - or if he is turned down. All Eggs Together One of the biggest mis takes students make in mul tiple applications, accord ing to admissions officers, is to put all their eggs in one basket. They apply to several different institu tions, all of which are equally hard to get into. It is much smarter to bracket the target by applying to one prestige college that's very selective, one good but less-well-known .institution, and one that can be consid ered relatively sure fire. If all of a student's direct applications are turned down, he still may find a college that will accept him, thanks to three new centers which specialize in match ing students with vacancies. They are the College Ad .missions Center. 610 Church St., Evanston, 111.; The Col lege Admissions Assistance Center, 536 East 80th st., New York 21, and the Catholic College Admis sions and Information Cent er, Assumption College, Worcester, Mass. Students May Register . For a modest fee, a stu dent may register at one of these centers. There his high school' record and test scores will be exam ined during the late spring and summer by admissions officers from scores of col leges -which still have va cancies. The colleges write directly to students who seem to meet their stand ards, inviting them to ap ply. This system has pre vented heartbreaking disap pointments for thousands of young men and women in the past few years. Still another last-ditch solution is to apoly for ad mission in February (start of the second semester) rather than in September. Many institutions winch have no room at the st.irt of the fall term are looking for qualified applicants to till vacancies caused by drop-outs and flunk-outs at the mid-term mark. Will Get Wort The college admissions problem will get worse be fore It gets better. The U.S. birth rate jumped snarply in the years following World War II, and this "bulge" in population is now approaching college age. Enrollment has in creased 17 per cent during the past two years, and au thorities anticipate that It will increase even more than that during the next two. "Two years from now, ' i said a U. S. office of edu . cation official. "We'll think I that the 1002-8:1 college en rollment figures were small." The American Council on Education, pleading for congressional action o n federal aid to colleges, warned this month that en rollment is fast approach ing the absolute capacity of the nation's higher educa tion Institutions. It said that unless federal funds are soon provided for a rapid expansion of dormitory and t classroom facilities, there will be no hope of taking care of all the young people who want and deserve a chance at college. Another Begins When a student is accept ed by a college, one worry ends and another begins: how to pay for it. The cost of attondina col lege have risen steadily for the past two years. The U.S. office of education esti mates that the co.it fur freshmen entering next fall will average about SI. 600 at public institutions and $2,400 at private insti tutions. But these figures may be misleading. In the lirst place, they cover only tui tion fees, room and board and do not include such substantial costs as trans portation, clothing, qnd spending money. In the sec ond place, as national aver ages, they are not necessar ily applicable to any par ticular institution. Cost May Range In actuality, the cost of going to college may range from as little as $200 a year for a student who lives at home and commutes to a public institution, to more than $4,000 a year for a resident student at an ex clusive private college or university. Aside from scholarships (for which the competition is increasingly severe) there are a wide variety of stu dent loan programs to help finance' college costs. The biggest is operated by the federal government, under the national defense education act. Hie loans are ' made by the colleges themselves, with the fed eral government putting up 90 per cent of the money and the colleges the other 10 per cent. The maximum loan is $1,000 a year, but the average runs about $500. No interest is charged until the student, gradu ates. 10 Years To Pay Therefore he has 10 years to repay the loan with an nual interest of 3 per cent. If he goes into public school teaching as a career, and remains there five years, half the loan is forgiven. About 235,000 students received $110 million in loans under this program during the current academic year. -Several states -also have student loan programs, and many banks, insurance companies and other priv ate organizations are now offering educational loans. Refer Urges Assessment to Promote Valley Pears Raymond Reter, Medford orchardist and shipper, de plored the small attendance at Friday afternoon's Fruit Growers' League meeting and urged greater attendance of "grass roots" growers to work on problems affecting all of the fruit industry. "We must clean up our own house and use every ingenuity to expand our markets." Reter said. "We will not be able to gel government programs every year (referring to the school lunch program pur chase of surplus pears.) "I have continually urged and I urge again increased as sessment for promotion of pears. The consumption of pears on a per capita basis is not keeping up with the pop ulation increase," the veteran shipper said. Praises Heler Later the league went on record praising Reter for the "untold hours" spent on work ing out fruit industry prob lems. Another motion praised Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) for his help with labor and mar keting problems. Reter also noted that the European Common Market is strictly an agriculture pro tectionist market. He severely criticized the state depart ment for "dragging its feet" in retaliating against France and Germany for violation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The current marketing problem is one of surpluses, cars of pears for the school Reter pointed out. However, recent freezes in the south may help sale of pears, he noted. The amount of citrus concentrates is down. The longshoremen's strike has tied up shipment of bananas, lie added. Spain Suffers Freese Since Spain suffered a freeze some European coun tries are going to Argentina for their pears. This is a high cost crop due to current in flation in Argentina. Probably few Argentina pears will be shipped into the United States at this time compared to the 350,000 boxes shipped in at one time before, Reter said. . The fruit crop surplus situ ation could have been seen in June when the over-all world market was faced with bump er crops from European coun tries. The volume of California cling peaches was another key factor, the shipper noted. Cal ifornia may have an even greater peach volume next year, Reter said. Australia expects to ship 6 million cases of cling peaches by 1968, he added. He said Del Monte pears are being canned in Italy. End in Storage One million more boxes of winter pears ended up in storage this year compared to last year, Reter said. He reported that the Pacific coast fruit industry is waiting for shipping orders for 413 lunch 'program, 161 carloads from the Rogue Valley, 161 from Washington, 85 from Hood River and six from Cal ifornia. Dave Lowry, chairman of the legislative committee, said most of the committee's work during the current .congres sional and legislative year will be to analyze legislation and take steps necessary on legislation adversely affect ing the fruit industry. A close working association with oth er agricultural groups is in valuable,, he said. Interesting Development The labor committee re ported the most interesting development the past year was the complete about face by the labor department on importation of Mexican Na tionals. Growers also asked for 300 Navajo Indians originally at the slate level, but later cut it to 43. Drinking, complete satisfaction with $4 or $5 a day and the high Cost of trans porting them to the valley made them far less desirable than the Mexican Nationals, it was reported. Nineteen recontraclcd Mex ican Nationals picked far more pears in three weeks than the Navajo Indians, it was reported. Oct. 8 the rain poured two inches of water into the valley in 24 hours. This was fol lowed by a severe wind on Oct. 12. Over 500,000 boxes were still unpicked on the trees. Paul Culbcrtson, chairman of the experiment station com mittee, said his committee has not been too active the past year. Dr. Peter Westigard, new station entomologist, and Dr. Porter Lombard, new sta tion superintendent as of Feb. 1, will make the Southern Orcgun Branch Experiment Station the outstanding one in the state, he said. The pear decline report is ready and will be available to all league members soon, Cul berlson said. As vice president of the Or egon State Horticulture Soci ety, Culbcrtson said next year's session will be Nov. 20. 21 and 22. Edwin Gcbhard, outgoing league president, thanked all committee members, and pub lic agencies for their cooper ation during the past year. He TAX WORK MADE EASY Rent or Least Adding Machine Typewriter Calculator VOIGHT'S Sih & Gript Eaiy Parking 772-4100 Groan Stamps noted several problems arose which could have been crucial ones if they had not been dealt with early. CITY'S FOR THE BIRDS : London -IUPD- Birds in Hoi. land Park are becoming in creasingly urbanized, a nat ural history society report said Friday. It has blackbirds use drinking straws to build nests, sparrows take sugar from the park cafeteria and robins eat bread crumbs from the hand. , SECURED BONDS To Oregon Rasidantt Only. In Amounts of $100 or Any Multiple Thereof. INTEREST PAYMENTS to purchasers ts desired Monthly. 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