New Standards Will Cut Yale Dean's List

Yale will cut its Dean's List almost in half by changing requirements from grade average to class standing, the Yale Dean's Office announced Saturday.

Effective this fall, students contending for the Dean's List will have to stand in the top 25 per cent of their class, rather than meet the old standard of a grade average of 80 per cent. The cut was made to "preserve the prestige" of the list, Associate Dean Richard C. Carsoll said.

At the end of the fall term last year 463 of the 814 seniors at Yale had qualified for the Dean's List. The new regulations would have allowed only 204 to make the list. Carroll said the university "doesn't want to take credit away from" the students, but that "by its very nature the Dean's List has to be limited to a minority of students."