Med School Favors Plan For One-Date Admission

Harvard Medical School is supporting a plan by which all admissions to medical schools would be sent out on a "single date," Kendall Emerson, Jr., assistant Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, stated yesterday.

This date would be in the spring, asserted Emerson, thus deferring present dates of admission and eliminating the "undue and unwise pressure on students" caused by "earlier admittances."

Emerson also called for a more stringent enforcement of the standard acceptance procedures of the Association of American Medical Colleges, which have come to be known as the "traffic rules."

The "traffic rules" prescribe that no place in the freshman class of a medical school shall be offered to an applicant more than one year before the actual start of instruction for that class, and the payment of a non-refundable deposit shall not be required of any applicant prior to January 15.

In a further re-evaluation of the admissions system, Emerson said that the Harvard Medical School was working on a "psychometric test" which would determine whether an applicant had the proper motivation for medicine.