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Direct linkAlvarado, Adriana Ruiz; Hurtado, Sylvia; Ambo, Theresa Jean Stewart – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
In a sequential, explanatory mixed method design, we studied 1,126 students matched by high-achieving ability, income level, race, gender, and cohort at four-year college entry to determine whether the financial concerns of program students and a matched sample varied by selectivity of their freshman institution. Results indicate low-income…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Financial Problems, College Choice, Selective Admission
Download full textBridgeman, Brent; Jenkins, Laura; Ervin, Nancy – 1999
Correlation of the Scholastic Assessment Test I: Reasoning Test (SAT I) scores and high school grade point average (HSGPA) with freshman grade point average (FGPA) were studied in a sample of 23 colleges. The SAT I predicts FGPA about equally well across different ethnic groups. Correlation of the SAT I and the composite of SAT I scores and HSGPA…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, Ethnic Groups, Grades (Scholastic)
Sax, Linda J.; Arredondo, Marisol – 1996
This report examines the affirmative action attitudes of 204,103 college freshmen from 473 colleges and universities nationwide and from four racial/ethnic groups: Whites, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Mexican Americans. The study addresses how and why student support for affirmative action in higher education admissions depends on how…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Asian Americans, Black Students, College Admission
Fincher, Cameron – 1993
This paper examines the role played by the adoption of a stringent admissions policy in the rapid transition of a large, open-door, senior college located in a metropolitan area in the South into an institution with elitist aspirations. The discussion focuses on the impact admission policy had on institutional characteristics and its effect on the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Freshmen
Basten, Jay; Cole, John; Maestas, Ricardo; Mason, Katherine – 1997
This study examined characteristics of the student bodies of highly selective and less-selective colleges and universities specifically those related to race and socioeconomic status (SES) and the possible effects of replacing race and ethnicity with SES as a method for ensuring student diversity. The study used data from the Cooperative…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Affirmative Action, College Admission, College Choice
Eddins, Diane Dixon – 1982
A model of attrition for specially admitted black students (low high school achievement and low assessed college aptitude) at the University of Pittsburgh was tested. The majority fell into the lower end of a socioeconomic range and often had inadequate precollege preparation. The attrition model was examined using a linear structural equation…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Black Students
