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They Went to College Early




Reviews the Program for Early Admission to College of the Fund for the Advancement of Education, a grant making fund established by the Ford Foundation.

The Fund for the Advancement of Education
1957
126 pages


First Printing April 1957
Board Of Directors
Officers
Executive Staff
Talent, Education and Democracy a Foreword
Contents
The Experiment to Date
The Problem to Which It Is Addressed
Five Attacks on the Problem
Origin And Aims of the Early Admission Program
How The Program Has Been Evaluated
Summary of Results to Date
The Colleges, the Scholars and the Comparison Students
How The Scholars Were Chosen
Characteristics of the Scholars
The Comparison Students
How The Colleges Handled the Scholars
The Academic Preparation of the Scholars and Comparisons
The Academic Performance of the Scholars
Grade-Point Averages
Area Tests of the Graduate Record Examinations
Academic Honors and Distinctions
The Social and Emotional Adjustment of the Scholars
Participation in Extra-Curricular Activities
Faculty Ratings of Over-All Adjustment
The Students' Own Testimony
The Findings of the Psychiatrists
Failures, Withdrawals, and Transfers
A Summing Up
The Judgment of the Scholars and Comparison Students
The Verdict of the Independent Evaluators
Comments of Scholars' Parents
The Attitudes of High School Principals
The Views of the Participating Colleges
The Future of Early Admission
Appendix