Special Advisors Aid AP Students

The Office of Advanced Standing has accepted a Harvard Policy Committee recommendation to provide better qualified advisers for sophomore standing candidates.

In a letter to the HPC released yesterday, Christopher Wadsworth '63, assistant director of advanced standing, said that responsibility for advising advanced standing candidates is being concentrated in the hands of a limited number of freshman advisors. Formerly, the candidates were distributed evenly, among all the members of the Freshman Board of Advisors.

Thus, for the first time sophomore standing candidates will constitute a significant percentage of some men's advisors. The Office of Advanced Standing hopes these men will feel compelled to familiarize themselves with problems unique to the advanced standing candidate.

The HPC had originally recommended the creation of a special staff of six to twelve advisors to assist the director of advanced standing and deal exclusively with the problems of advanced standing candidates. But Michael E. Abram '66, chairman of the HPC, called the office of Advanced Standing's plan "a good substitute."

Of 210 students offered advanced standing this year, 97 accepted it. This is the first year that more than 50% of the candidates refused it.