Glimp Expects No Increase In Applications This Year

Because the entire application-admission schedule has been moved ahead one month, the Admissions Office has received about twice as many application as it had on this date last fall.

The Office will begin reading the candidates folders either today or Monday. The exact number of applications received so far has not been released.

Fred L. Glimp '50, Dean of Admissions, said yesterday, however, that he expects the number of applications accepted before the Jan. 1 deadline to be no higher than the total figure for last year. This prediction would put the number at about 5240, the average over the past three years. The application total for the present freshman class was 5247.

The Office will notify accepted candidates on April 16, instead of the usual date in the middle of May. The new deadline was selected because it more nearly coincides with most other colleges' acceptance date, although there is no standard practice on notifications. Yale and Princeton will send out their acceptance letters on the same day as Harvard, as they did before the change.

Less Processing Time

The change in scheduling will give the Office two weeks less time than usual to process the applications, since the final deadline for applying has been moved up only two weeks, while acceptance letters will go out a full month earlier.

Also for the first time this year, the Office has requested that wherever possible applications be entered by a target date some time before the final deadline. This target date was Nov. 15, at which time the Office was receiving about 200 applications a day.

Three different people on a 19-memebr admissions board will review each candidate's application.