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Transition Program

Under a two-year transition program for
coeducation, the University last year admitted
for the first time 450 women, including 100
transfer students, to the College of Arts and
Sciences, the School of Engineering, and the
School of Architecture. After this year, female
enrollment will not be restricted by a quota.

"Statistically speaking, the women and the
men in this year's first-year class are quite
compatible," Ernest H. Ern, dean of
admissions, said.

"Women's scores on scholastic aptitude
tests," he noted, "tend to be a shade higher
than men's on verbal aptitude, and significantly
lower on math."

Ninety per cent of the entering first-year
women in the College graduated in the top fifth
of their high school classes, as compared to 74%
of the class as a whole.