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Peer reviewedCross, Theodore; Slater, Robert Bruce – Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1995
Discusses the increasing presence of Asians in higher education, their domination of the very top of Scholastic Aptitude Test ranks, and why these circumstances may cause racial conservatives to rethink advocating race-blind college admissions. Asian dominance in admissions at the most prestigious universities in the United States and how some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Asian Americans
Whinfield, R. W. – 1981
A study was conducted to evaluate the admission criteria being used by the Connecticut Regional Vocational Technical Schools for the years 1977-1979, in an attempt to determine whether or not admission criteria and success in school could be used to predict second- and third-year grades. In addition, a pilot study was developed to follow up…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
Thernstrom, Abigail, Ed.; Thernstrom, Stephan, Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers includes: "The Demography of Racial and Ethnic Groups" (Stephan Thernstrom); "Immigration and Group Relations" (Reed Ueda); "What Americans Think about Race and Ethnicity" (Everett C. Ladd); "Wresting with Stigma" (Shelby Steele); "Residential Segregation Trends" (William…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, American Indians, Blacks
