Excellent & Rejected

Don F. Odell, 17, is one of the ablest scholars ever produced at Denver's big East High School, with College Board scores that put him in the nation's top 2%. Out of a possible 800, average scores are around 500. Odell's were:

Verbal Aptitude 724

Math Aptitude 747

English Achievement 764

Spanish Achievement 779

Advanced Math Achievement 800

With optimism, Don applied for admission to Swarthmore ("I think it offers more opportunity for independent study in philosophy, and I would like very much to teach philosophy in college"). In a terse letter, Swarthmore rejected him, as usual giving no reason. Though he now expects to go to Minnesota's Carleton, which readily accepted him, the news from Swarthmore stunned his fellow students at East High. Its apparent meaning: the advantage that Western youth had in the desire of Eastern colleges for "geographical distribution" is melting away.

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