Class of '70 Applications Rise Slightly

The Committee on Admissions has begun choosing Harvard's Class of 1970 from among 6005 applicants, only a slight increase over last year.

Fred L. Glimp '50, dean of admissions and financial aids, said that the rate of applications has apparently leveled off after a spectacular jump of about 30 per cent between 1963 and 1965.

Last year at this time the Committee had received 5947 applications--just one per cent fewer than this year. Glimp expects stragglers who applied after the Jan. 1 deadline to bring this year's total into the vicinity of last year's 6745.

Baby Boom Dies

Glimp attributed the recent rise in applications to the post-war baby boom. But the boom apparently died out before 1948, when most of this year's applicants were born. This year's high school senior class is slightly smaller than last year's.

The Admissions Committee has already begun evaluating applicant's folders. The committee's formal meetings, at which candidates are formally accepted, rejected, or put on the waiting list, will begin March 17.

The committee will then go into six or seven days a week of meetings until April 6, when acceptances and rejections will be mailed out. The committee also evaluates requests for scholarships -- approximately 56 per cent of this year's applicants, the same number as last year, requested financial aid.

Waiting List

After Dean Ford determines the ideal size of the freshman class -- it's expected to stay in the vicinity of 1200 -- enough acceptances will be mailed out to fill all but a few of the places. The remainder of the class will be added from the waiting list -- about 25 were admitted from the waiting list last year.

The rate of acceptances among those admitted to Harvard is expected to stay at approximately 35 per cent. Sixteen of those admitted last year decided not to enter until 1966.