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student's probable performance in college, Farrar said.
The average scores on the standard Scholastic Achievement Tests (SAT) for the class of 1974 were 610 on the mathematics section and 574 on the verbal, according to the admissions director.
The average score on the advanced English achievement test, required by W&L for all entering students, was 563, he said. The average test scores were virtually unchanged from a year ago.
Of the new freshmen, 68 per cent graduated from public high schools and 32 per cent from private schools. A year ago 70 per cent of the freshman class came from public schools and 30 per cent from private.
Virginia will send the largest number of students, 98, to W&L in September. Maryland will have the second largest representation, with 36, followed by New Jersey and Pennsylvania with 29 each, Texas with 22, Georgia with 19, Florida with 18, New York with 14 and North Carolina with 12.
Altogether, 34 states and the District of Columbia will be represented in the entering class.
Philadelphia, Pa., .will send more boys-14-to W&L next fall than any other single city, Farrar said. Atlanta will send 12; Baltimore, 11; Richmond, 10; Lexington and Roanoke, Va., nine each; Bethesda, Md., and Jacksonville, Fla., seven each; and Dallas, Texas, and Norfolk, Va., six.
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