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They ShouldBut Don 'tGo To College
By JUDITII CRIST
(New York Herald Tribune)

High among the untapped
ural" resources of the nation are
the estimated 200,000 young people
of euperlor ability who do not go
to college.
While money is a major factor
In their failure to do so, the "more
elusive but more fundamental"
reasons why many brillian youths
do not gos as far as they can and
should In their education and
training, Ralph C. M. Flynt believes, ought to interest the nation
and educators in general and student counselors in particular.
Ralph C. M. Flynt, acting director
of the student personnel services
branch of the Office of Education's
division of higher education, has
a five-poiproposal, concerned
both with the questions of economics and of "talent identification."
Wasted Talent
The problem of "undeveloped
talent," Mr. Flynt said in a report
in the Office of Education's publication, "School Life," concerns
"that considerable body of youth
of the highest level of ability who
graduate from high school but fail
to attend college," estimated at
150,000 annually, or one-ha- lf
of the
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per cent In ability, "and of Mr. Flynt said, has Indicated that
would, but a "reliable
body of equal ability who fail even nationwide picture" has yet to be
to graduate from high school," drawn. If the number could be
estimated at about 60,000 each Axed, he believes, then the finanyear.
cial need could be bauged and re"Some observers have assumed sources to meet It looked for.
from the gross numbers of our
"I predict," he observed, "that
college population that all is well," when all the evidence is In we are
he said. But while it is true that going to find the view of one obthere has been a "considerable" in- server who said, 'Money is not
crease in college attendance in the everything, it is Just the only
age group thing,' substantially corroborated.
from 15.3 per cent in 1940 to 24 I suspect also that we will find
per cent in 1953, and a numerical after we have passed the category
Increase from 1,364,000 in the fall where money is the controlling
of 1939 to 2,475,000 in the fall of factor that it is highly correlated
1954 this increase has not includ
with other factors."
Family Background
ed "the considerable body of un
developed talent to which I refer.
Some studies have, already indiA summary of factors have pre cated what the other "factors" are.
vented these talented young peo- Mr. Flynt cites one study showing
ple and many of "less conspicu- that three times as many children
ous" talent from going to college of professionals attend college as
Among them have been rising tui- of craftsmen and unskilled factory
tion costs and ironically also the workers. Other studies show a
post World War II employment range of college attendance among
picture that has caused many different states, among parts of a
young people to forego college in single state and between urban
favor of tempting Jobs.
and rural areas.
But the "more elusive and more
Another "factor" worth study:
fundamental" reasons for this sit- girls usually excell as high school
uation, Mr. Flynt said, "are in the students, but their enrollment in
subtle setting in which the fragile college is one-thithat of men.
flower of motivation. is nourished." What are the geographical, racial,
The Reasons
social factors? What of the parTwo factors, research has indi- allel potential among Negro youth?
cated markedly good work In secTo "help us markedly to insure
ondary school and indications of that all able youth receive optihigh intellectual ability, say, on mum education and training," Mr.
test scores induct college attend- Flynt has five suggestions:
ecoance. Two other factors
First, it should be determined
nomic status and lacking "desire' '.'with reasonable accuracy" how
for education ''are of greater Im- many more young people would
portance In preventing college at- attend college if funds were availtendance, certainly in the Instance able to them. Then the present
of the top-lev- el
practices should
student who fails scholarship-an- d
to reach college."
be "overhauled" where necessary
But there is much still to be dis- and additional programs created
covered: how x many students of "by the unified or parallel efforts
good intellectual but poor financial of the institution, the states, priability would go to college if given vate doners and others," to reach
financial assistance? One study "with certainty" those whose sole
deterrent from college is financial
need.
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"I make no claims that college
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