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In his annual address to the faculty yesterday, College President James Freedman set goals for the coming years and identified positive and negative trends in the composition of the student body and faculty.
Freedman touted the merits of the Class of 1998, citing that median scores on Scholastic Aptitude Tests have risen 50 points in four years and that the percentage of women is greater than ever before.
"Dartmouth will be a better, livelier place when parity [between the sexes] is reached," Freedman said during his speech, which lasted about 45 minutes.
According to Freedman, student matriculation statistics indicate that the gap between Dartmouth and some of the other top schools has narrowed during the last seven years.
In 1987, 85 percent of students accepted to both Dartmouth and either Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford or Brown chose not to attend Dartmouth, Freedman said.