Too Good for Ordinary Colleges, Too Numerous for the Best
UNTIL lately, the favorite complaint of U.S. colleges was that high schools sent them immature and unscholarly freshmen. Now the tables are about to be turned. Ill-prepared for doubled enrollment in the 1960s, colleges also face a sharp rise in abilitythe nation's better high schools are improving so fast that their top graduates are too good for ordinary colleges, and too numerous for the best ones to handle. The favored campuses in particular are hotly debating everything from admissions to curriculum, and...
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