Large Entering B-School Class May Grow Smaller

"We're sitting here hoping that more will drop out," Business School spokesmen said last week when they revealed that preliminary registration figures showed that 643 men intend to enter this first-year class this fall.

The Registrars Office was optimistic, however, about the chances of the class' setting down to the expected size of about 610 men. Last minute draftings, transportation troubles for foreign students, and eleventh-hour changings of minds are all counted on to take their toll of prospective first-year students.

The first-year class that registered last September originally was estimated at 630 men, but before the term had gotten well underway it was pared down to size. As second-year students this fall, about 531 are expected to show up.

The twenty-second Advanced Management group of some 156 business and industrial leaders will register one day earlier than the rest of the Business School. There are no educational pre-requisites for entrance in this program, business accomplishment being the main criterion. The average age of men in the AMP is 45 years.