Ec Dept. Loses 5 Grad Applicants To MIT This Year

The chairman of the Economics Departments graduate admissions admitted said yesterday that the department did not suffer substantial losses of highly rated graduate school applications to MIT as he had feared last week.

Zvi Grilishes professor of Economics and chairman of the department's graduate admissions committee added that final figures on admissions show that the department lost five of its 15 most highly rated applicants to MIT compared to a loss of four last year.

Griliches told The Crimson last week--on the basis of preliminary figures--that the department might have lost as many as ten of its most highly rated applicants to MIT.

At that time, Griliches said that the department's reputation for "impersonality and coldness" probably caused at to lose highly-rated applicants to MIT this year.

But Griliches said yesterday that had publicity about the department, particularly in the national news media, had made the admissions committee initially apt to overestimate the number and the seriousness of losses of highly-rated applicants.