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FOR A

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. SAN DIEGc(

(~'FICE OF THE PROVOST

THE THIRD COLLEGE
La Jolla,
California
92037

De c em be r 29, 1969
TO:

Members

of the Academic

FROM:

J oint Committee

on Third

Senate
College

Admis sions

c
According to the instructions
of the Division contained in a
resolution
of Dc c ernbc r 8, 1969, a Joint Committee
on Third College
Admissions,
composed of the rn ern be r s of the Admissions
Committee,
the Committee
on Educational
Policy,
and the Third College Board of
Directors,
was charged with preparing
a revised draft of the Third
College Admissions
Variance
proposal.
The result is attached.
It
differs
significantly
from the previously
circulated
Appendix II of the
Third College Academic Plan in the following ways:

weight

1/9,

At the end of Section B the initial value s of the relative

of the GPA, BlvlPA, and RA are assigned to be 4/9, 4/9, and
respectively.
A floor of 2.0 is set under the GPA and BMPA,

subject

to Admissions

Committee

At the end of part

Director

of Admissions

review.

B (4) the need for a professional

Research

is stated.

Section C on selection procedure

has been added.
It specifies
the fraction
of Third College admits who will be regularly
admissible
to UC to be restricted
to the range 1/4 to 3/4, with an initial value 1/3.
Section

D has been modified

extensively.

Note especially

provision
that liaison rn ernb e r s of the Senate Committee
meet with the Third College Committee
on Admissions.

the

on Adrn i s s ion s

For the Joint Corrrrn it t e e on

Third College Admis sions
Attachment
Rern irid e r.:

The special Senate meeting on Third College admissions

is
scheduled for Tuesday,
January 6, at 3: 30 p. m , in 2722 USB.

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