In preparation for this report, the Fund asked each of the participating colleges and universities to study the records of the first two groups of Scholars to graduate and to judge whether early admission had been wise in each individual case. The results of this appraisal were as follows:

As the table indicates, the faculty judgment at the participating institutions was that early admission was wise in the case of eight out of ten Scholars in the 1951 group, and in the case of three out of four in the 1952 group. (It must be remembered that the judgments covered only those Scholars who had survived through senior year.)

The Fund also asked the participating institutions to appraise their experience under the Early Admission Program, and invited them to comment on the broad implications of the results to date for American secondary and higher education as a whole.

Excerpts from their reports follow:

The University of Chicago

The Chicago campus made adjustment easier in that there were so many students of the same age as the Scholars. For approximately ten years prior to the start of the Early Admission Program, the University of Chicago had admitted students to the College who had completed no more than two years of high school. The Early Admission Scholars who entered in 1951 and in each succeeding year were only a fraction of the total number of entering students who had not graduated from high school. I think, too, the curriculum made adjustment easier. The curriculum at the University of Chicago is arranged so as to allow each student to proceed at his own best pace. But Chicago is a large metropolitan University, and for many reasons a large university is not the ideal home for everyone, and I suppose