"The Bulge Is Here"

As this issue goes to press the word from the Admissions Office is that the spiral is tightening. The Class of '64 will again be the "best by all measurable criteria" and it was the toughest to choose, according to Director Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '36. Some of the factors are: (1) completed applications increased by 20 per cent, to 3700; (2) the number of outstanding candidates admitted under the "early acceptance" program rose from 91 last year to 145 this year, leaving 54 less places to be filled in the regular admissions process.

"It's hard to explain to students, parents, enrollment workers, and headmasters why a given applicant was turned down when an apparently less qualified one from the same school was admitted last year," he says. "The overall increase in applicants' qualifications has made that much difference.

"Choosing from the borderline cases is doubly difficult this year, because many boys with fairly uniform qualifications could make real contributions to college life.

"The 'admissions bulge' we've been talking about is here," he concluded.