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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
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popular Institution, are
simply untrue.
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
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