Psychologist Correlates Success With College Standing, Activities

A psychologist has urged corporation recruitment officers hiring college graduates to look for men in the top quarter of their class not only in scholarship but in extracurricular activities and sports.

In an article in the June issue of Fortune magazine, Dr. Richard W. Husband of Florida State University said that his survey of members of his class at Dartmouth, the class of 1926, indicated a direct relation between present income and number of extracurricular activities in college.

Dr. Husband also noted a relation between fields of study and present income. Business and Economics majors had the highest median income, while Social Sciences students came next. Scientists, mostly pre-medical students, followed in third place, while "Cultural" majors earned less than the class median.

He also noted that many students with less than average records in scholarship and extracurriculars nevertheless ranked high in income. Most of these "late bloomers" had done postgraduate study of some sort, frequently medical study.

Dr. Husband based his survey on college records, the class yearbook, and a special questionnaire on job history, income, civic affairs and other aspects of the graduates' lives. Median income of those who replied was $14,950.

The survey also indicated that em-mine if any predictions could be made about a college student's future business success on the basis of his college record.

The survey also indicated that employers should look for graduates with a balanced high record in both studies and extracurricular activities. "The 'B' student who has some outside activities" usually turns out to be a more successful executive.

In general, however, the study indicates that neither college grades nor intelligence tests are reliable measures of future success except at high and low extremes, according to Dr. Husband.