out the country. The examinations are now open to any able high school student, wherever he may be and whether he achieved his knowledge through his own efforts, through tutorial assistance, or by taking special courses. Advanced courses covered by the program are in 12 fields: English Composition, Literature, French, German, Latin, Spanish, American History, European History, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. In 1956, a total of 1,229 students from 110 secondary schools throughout the country took 2,199 examinations and entered 138 colleges in September. (Nearly half of these students are enrolled at five Eastern colleges—172 at Harvard, 143 at Yale, 89 at Princeton, 60 at Cornell, and 50 at m.i.t.) A recent check of 4,000 high schools by the ceeb indicated that there will be a further increase in the number of candidates for the examinations in the spring of 1957.

The Program for Early Admission to College, with which this report is concerned, represents a somewhat different approach to the problem of saving the able student's time and enriching the quality of his education. It has the same basic aim as the Advanced Placement Program, but it recognizes that many American high schools are not equipped to offer their ablest students college-level work, and that even in high schools that are so equipped, some students who have demonstrated a capacity for college work can profit more by entering college earlier than usual than by remaining in high school.