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The Harvard Medical School has accepted 109 men and 56 women for the class of 1979 from 3208 total applicants, Herbert A. Shaw, a spokesman for the Medical School, said yesterday.
From the 165 admitted, 22 men and three women have been admitted to the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology.
This year's class will maintain last year's two-to-one male-female ratio In addition, 35 applicants from minority group--including Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans. Blacks and Orientals--were accepted this year, to form one fifth of the total acceptances.
The acceptance rate of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates for the past two year has held constant at 28 per cent. Medical School admissions officer Tanya Friedman said yesterday that this year's rate will not be ready until April.
The total number of applicants fell this year. Shaw said form last year's 3258 applicants to 3208 men and women applicants.
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