Expresses the concerns about college admissions procedures that the National Association of Secondary School Principals' Committee on School-College Relations would like to see addressed in seven areas: college entrance requirements, college admissions tests, college recruitment, high-risk students, overrecruitment, letters of recommendation, and…

The nation's best interests are served by selective admission to higher education. Selection should be based on scholastic aptitude, measured more accurately by combining high school grades and aptitude test scores than by either alone. Neither scores nor grades is flawless or badly flawed enough to be disregarded. (MSE)

Four questions concerning the admission and enrollment of learning disabled (LD) students relate to: the definition of a learning disability; admissions officers' and/or committees' identification of LD applicants; special considerations, if any, to be used by admissions for LD applications; and special services needed by admitted and…

Issues facing social work education are reviewed including: lack of an instructional methodology, effectiveness of practice, admission to social work education programs, theories of people, assessment of competence, and generic curriculum. Avenues to effective education include: relationship-building training, empirical bases of interpersonal…

The Bakke case is viewed as simply another reflection of elitist criteria which limit the success of minority groups in our society. The arguments brought forth by Bakke's lawyers are shown to support this position. (GC)

Analyzes the way the Supreme Court decision in the Bakke case dealt delicately with the meanings of a number of key words, including "quota,""stigma,""equality," and "discrimination." (GT)

The relationship between the "need-blind" philosophy of college admission and institutional student financial aid policies is examined. The ethics of providing less-capable students with higher debt and workloads, and other policies that apply differential aid packaging for higher-risk students, are called into question. (MSE)

This article examines the impact on institutions of higher education, particularly in 19 southern and border states, from the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on how the states must show they have removed vestiges of past segregation. Its impact on affirmative action, admissions criteria, and redistricting are examined. (GLR)

Draws on 20 years of experience as College Board staff member to discuss the traditional role of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), test bias, a new and emerging role for the SAT, and the SAT's interaction with other testing methods. (NB)

California's Proposition 209, dismantling affirmative-action policy, has chilled race relations in the state, provided a road map for groups with similar agendas in other states, and challenged higher education to find alternative paths to justice for women and people of color. Recent experience has shown that more selective institutions have…

In this article, the author discusses two major conclusions about initial preparation programs in the United States. On the upside, a good deal of energy and hard work is being poured into attempts to revitalize preparation programs. On the downside, people are not seeing much in the way of real improvement; that is, most of the change is on the…

Correlational methods are compared to an alternative method based on decision theory and logistic regression for providing validity evidence for college admissions and course placement criteria. The advantages and limitations of both methods are examined. The correlation coefficient measures the strength of the linear statistical relationship…

College admissions requirements can be a powerful force toward improved student achievement in high schools and colleges. In January of 1982, California State University adopted more rigorous admission requirements, to become effective in the fall of 1984. Since that decision, morale of high school teachers has improved, and expectations and…

Students' last years in high school which otherwise might be ones in which they enjoy the privileges of their seniority can become a nightmare of waiting, fear of rejection, despair, and desperation for many college-bound students. The whole structure of college admissions is hopelessly archaic, exorbitantly wasteful and one which systematically…

Based on a review of the briefs filed with the U. S. Supreme Court in the Bakke case, the principal arguments addressed to the Court, possible dispositions of the case, and implications for the educational community are addressed. Bakke's claim is that he had been denied the equal protection of the laws in that applicants of lesser obective…