Footnotes

SUMMARY OF RESULTS TO DATE

Final evaluation of the Early Admission Program will have to wait until the Scholars still in college have graduated, but the results to date clearly indicate that under the proper circumstances early admission to college represents a promising approach to the problem of freeing the able student from the "lock step" and helping him to realize his full potential. That there are risks involved was recognized at the outset of the experiment, but the evidence gathered thus far suggests that these risks are not as great as might be expected and that the rewards to those who succeed can be very great. The results to date can be summarized as follows:

• Although the program has operated more smoothly at some colleges than at others, all of the participating colleges consider it to have been successful.

• In a few cases, some of the colleges made mistakes in the selection of their first group of Scholars, and some were overprotective in their handling of the Scholars during the first year of the experiment, but by and large these difficulties were overcome in the selection and handling of subsequent Scholar groups.

• Academically, all four groups of Scholars have outperformed their classes as a whole and their Comparison students.

• The rate of failure among the first two groups of Scholars was somewhat higher than that among their Comparison students, but at most of the colleges where comparable data were available it was lower than that among their classmates as a whole. When the reasons for failure were examined, they were found to be no different for the Scholars than for college students in general.

• The Scholars encountered more initial difficulties in adjusting