C-Plus for 1951

THE Committee on Admission has informed the faculty that public school graduates do just as well scholastically at Dartmouth as the men who matriculate from private schools. This is based on a two-year study of the Class of 1951, which divided its college preparation just about evenly between the two types of schools. For the first four semesters of college the high school men have a general average of 2.33, compared with 2.25 for the private school men. The lowest group record, as might be expected, was made by the students who shifted from public to private schools.

The present report constitutes quite a change from a similar study of the Class of 1940, covering the full four-year course begun in 1936. At that time public school men held a decided scholastic edge over the private school men, 2.416 to a.168; although the earlier comparison, it must be pointed out, made no attempt to treat separately the men who had transferred from public to private schools.