EXHIBIT NO. EX-99.h.2.b.vii


                        THE DFA INVESTMENT TRUST COMPANY


                ADMINISTRATION AND ACCOUNTING SERVICES AGREEMENT
                              ADDENDUM NUMBER SEVEN

         THIS ADDENDUM is made as of the ___ day of September, 2001, by and
between THE DFA INVESTMENT TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware business trust (the
"Fund"), and PFPC INC., formerly known as "Provident Financial Processing
Corporation," a Delaware corporation ("PFPC").

                              W I T N E S S E T H :

         WHEREAS, the Fund is registered as an open-end, management investment
company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; and

         WHEREAS, the Fund has retained PFPC to provide certain administration
and accounting services to the Fund pursuant to an Administration and Accounting
Services Agreement dated January 15, 1993, as amended (the "Agreement"), which,
as of the date hereof, remains in full force and effect; and

         WHEREAS, Paragraph 1 of the Agreement provides that PFPC shall provide
such services to any series organized by the Fund after the date of the
Agreement, as agreed to in writing by PFPC and the Fund; and

         WHEREAS, PFPC presently provides such services to the series of the
Fund designated as The Tax-Managed U.S. Marketwide Series, which shall be
renamed The Tax-Managed U.S. Equity Series, and which is listed on Schedule B,
attached hereto; and

         WHEREAS, Paragraph 18 of the Agreement provides that the Agreement may
only be changed by a written instrument signed by the party against which
enforcement of such change is sought;

         NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants
herein contained, and intending to be legally bound thereby, the parties hereby
agree that:

         1.    The Agreement is amended to provide that those series set forth
on "Schedule B, Series of The DFA Investment Trust Company, Amended and Restated
September 21, 2001," which is attached hereto, shall be "Series" under the
Agreement.

         2.    The fee schedules of PFPC applicable to the Series shall be as
agreed to in writing, from time to time, by the Fund and PFPC.

         3.    In all other respects, the Agreement shall remain unchanged and
in full force and effect.


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         4.    This Addendum may be executed in two or more counterparts, each
of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute
one and the same instrument.

         5.    The effective date of this Addendum shall be September 21, 2001.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Addendum Number
Seven to the Agreement to be executed by their duly authorized officers
designated below on the day and year first above written.


                                        THE DFA INVESTMENT TRUST COMPANY

                                        By:
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Catherine L. Newell
                                           Vice President and Secretary


                                        PFPC INC.

                                        By:
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Joseph Gramlich
                                           Senior Vice President




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                                                            AMENDED AND RESTATED
                                                              SEPTEMBER 21, 2001

                                   SCHEDULE B


                                    SERIES OF
                        THE DFA INVESTMENT TRUST COMPANY


                            THE U.S. MICRO CAP SERIES
                            THE U.S. SMALL CAP SERIES
                          THE U.S. LARGE COMPANY SERIES
                     THE ENHANCED U.S. LARGE COMPANY SERIES
                         THE U.S. SMALL CAP VALUE SERIES
                         THE U.S. LARGE CAP VALUE SERIES
                         THE U.S. SMALL XM VALUE SERIES
                        THE JAPANESE SMALL COMPANY SERIES
                      THE PACIFIC RIM SMALL COMPANY SERIES
                     THE UNITED KINGDOM SMALL COMPANY SERIES
                           THE EMERGING MARKETS SERIES
                       THE DFA INTERNATIONAL VALUE SERIES
                      THE EMERGING MARKETS SMALL CAP SERIES
                      THE CONTINENTAL SMALL COMPANY SERIES
                      THE DFA ONE-YEAR FIXED INCOME SERIES
                   THE DFA TWO-YEAR GLOBAL FIXED INCOME SERIES
                  THE TAX-MANAGED U.S. MARKETWIDE VALUE SERIES
                       THE TAX-MANAGED U.S. EQUITY SERIES
                             THE GLOBAL VALUE SERIES
                         THE GLOBAL LARGE COMPANY SERIES
                         THE GLOBAL SMALL COMPANY SERIES
                          THE LD U.S. MARKETWIDE SERIES
                          THE HD U.S. MARKETWIDE SERIES
                       THE LD U.S. MARKETWIDE VALUE SERIES
                       THE HD U.S. MARKETWIDE VALUE SERIES




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