Footnotes

HOW THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN EVALUATED

Through the co-operation of the participating colleges and the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, New Jersey, a plan for evaluating the Early Admission Program was worked out in the fall of 1952. Under this plan, the colleges have kept detailed records on the Scholars and have compared their performance with that of a carefully selected group of Comparison students matched with the Scholars on the basis of academic aptitude. In addition, the Scholars themselves have completed questionnaires calling for 34 items of information about their family and school backgrounds, their experience in college, and their plans for the future. The considerable body of data emanating from these two sources has been compiled and analyzed by the Educational Testing Service.

Finally, in preparation for this report, each of the participating colleges reported to the Fund on its own experience under the program, and two independent evaluations were made by well-qualified professional people who had no connection with the Fund or with the experiment. The first was an appraisal of the social and emotional adjustment of the 1951 Scholars, made by a team of trained psychiatrists headed by Dr. Dana Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services at Harvard University, and including as its other members Dr. Daniel H. Funkenstein of the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Bryant Wedge of the Department of Student Health at Yale University. The second was an analysis by Richard Pearson, Associate Director of the College Entrance Examination Board, of essays written just before graduation by 1951 and 1952 Scholars