Boards Correct Undergrad 1-A's

Most 1-A classifications of undergraduates have been due to technical misunderstandings by local draft boards and have been corrected. Dean Monro said yesterday. Monro also sent a letter to each senior tutor outlining the procedure of appealing a 1-A classification.

In one case a local draft board did not consider a four-course curriculum as meeting the minimum work load requirement for a student deferment. Another draft board did not understand Harvard's advanced placement system.

Both misunderstandings resulted in undergraduates receiving 1-A draft ratings, and in both cases the students were reclassified after the University sent explanatory letters to the boards, Monro said.

Quick Response

The letter to the senior tutors explained that a major factor in having a 1-A classification removed was quick response to the local board. A student has ten days from the date of notification to appeal the reclassification before his local board. If the local board rejects his appeal the student has another 10-day period to appeal to his state board.

Monro said the University has not received any requests by draft boards for lists of students in the bottom quarter of their class although he said the University would comply with such requests.