CUE, Davis Debate Later Requests For Advanced Standing

Mack I. Davis, director of the advanced standing program, said yesterday he will ask departments to determine ways of changing their tutorial structure to allow students to wait until spring of their freshman year before deciding to accept advanced standing.

Because sophomore standing students take sophomore tutorial in their first year at Harvard, they must enroll as advanced standing students in the fall, Davis said. He told the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) an "intensive tutorial" combining sophomore and junior tutorials might be the best answer to the problem, and added he would write to the departments "eventually."

"My sympathies certainly lie in the direction of allowing students more time to make up their minds," Davis said.

"Different departments may have different solutions--all we need to know is that they can do something about it," Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the faculty for undergraduate education, added.

The Educational Resources Group (ERG), which originally suggested this solution, also proposed to make any student with Advanced Placement (A.P.) test credit eligible for Core credit, whether or not be enrolled in the sophomore standing program. The ERG also said students should be able to take A.P. tests at Harvard, perhaps during Freshman Week.