Enrollment

DARTMOUTH'S enrollment this fall, totaling 2,848 men, is nine greater than last year, which is about as close as you can come to consistency in the unpredictable business of student registration. Of this total, 2,655 students are undergraduates and 193 are enrolled in graduate courses.

The target for the new Class of 1957 was 725, and by resorting to its tried-and-true formulas, and probably also to some of the necromantic secrets of the trade, the Admissions Office came up with a freshman class of 728 men. These men were the successful concentrate of 2,820 completed applications, an increase of 355 over the applications of the year before. The Class of 1956, which entered Dartmouth 745 strong, now forms a sophomore class of 685 men, a very fine record of meeting the academic pace, when one takes into consideration the fact that attrition includes withdrawals because of illness and other reasons as well as because of scholastic difficulties. The predictive word on the Class of 1957 is that it shows promise of being one of the best classes ever admitted to Dartmouth, ranking higher than the three previous classes in the statistics and test scores by which such judgments are made.

This year's freshman class has enrolled only 220 men in the three ROTC Units compared with 460 men last fall and 575 the year before that. The drop is largest in the Air Force ROTC, which has only 35 freshmen this year. The AFROTC has put into effect the most stringent cutback in college trainees, releasing men already in the program unless they volunteer and are qualified for flight training. Its total of 348 men this fall is less than half of the 725 trainees in the Air Force unit last year. The reduction in the Army unit is much smaller, and the enrollment in the Navy unit is relatively unchanged.