Admissions: Telling All to a Computer

The first computers had barely been put to work by college administrators a few years ago when students began complaining that they were being treated like so many IBM punch cards. Now prospective undergraduates are eagerly paying $15 to get just that sort of attention. By having information about themselves put on punch cards, they are getting valuable help in choosing the right college. In a fast-growing computerized program called SELECT, a computer digests the answers to a four-part 283-item questionnaire in a matter of seconds and compares the answers with its store...

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