The expected difference in academic performance between students accepted at Princeton in special admissions rounds and "top" waiting-list applicants not admitted is no greater than the difference between B and C+ grade point averages, a University report released yesterday said.
"We were not moved to recommend any changes in admissions policy," said Dean of the College Neil L. Rudenstine '56. Rudenstine chairs the Faculty Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid that wrote the reported based on a study of special admissions group students begun more than a year ago.
The report uses data from the classes of 1973 and 1974 to predict the performance of applicants to the class of '78 solely on the basis of their admissions credentials and not considering whether they were admitted.
"The goal was to predict the performance that could be expected from students admitted in special group rounds in the class of 1978 and to compare this expected performance to the expected performance of alternate-list students who were denied admission to Princeton," the report said.
"This later group (waiting-list applicants denied admission) represents students who might have been admitted if no special consideration had been given to the goal of 'diversity' in the admission process," the report added.
The report predicted Princeton grade-point averages for these special groups: students with special academic strength in a particular field, B+ to Bengineers, Bl alumni children B to B-; athletes, B-; minority students other than blacks, Bto C+; students with special ability in extracurricular activities, B to B-.
The committee distinguishes between black students and other minority students because "the results of our study indicate that black students in the classes of 1973 and 1974 tended to do less well than their admissions data alone would predict," the report said.
Assuming there has been no change in conditions affecting this adaptation process over the past few years, blacks were preidcted to earn C+ averages; assuming changes, their predicted average was B-.
The predicted average for the waiting-list students was B.
"I want to stress that none of the contributions of these students on the non-academic side are tallied up here," Rudenstine said.
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