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High SAT Scores

Dean Ern said that his survey
showed that the college
board Scholastic Aptitude Test
(SAT) continued to reflect the
high quality of entering students
this year.

The average SAT verbal
score of the 968 students entering
the College of Arts and
Sciences was 598 and the average
for mathematics was 632
(maximum is 800 for both).

In the School of Engineering
and Applied Science where 306
first-year men enrolled, the
average verbal SAT score was
566 and 655 in mathematics.
In the School of Architecture,
the 58 first-year students averaged
a score of 595 verbal and
650 mathematics.

Over-all the SAT scores were
slightly below those of 1966,
which Dean Ern said reflects a
national trend.