A noncompensatory selection model for choosing graduate students correctly predicted 61 percent of the successful students. The compensatory model was able to correctly predict only 21 percent of those who succeeded. (RM)

This study examined pre-college variables from an admission-office perspective and the ability of these variables to predict college grade point average (GPA) for students specially admitted into an academic support program for at-risk students. The research was conducted at a private, highly-selective, research university in the southwest United…

Results indicate that students granted admission variances at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in 1970-71 achieved much success, attributed to the flexible curriculum at the school. (PG)

THE VALIDITY OF THE TWO MOST COMMON PREDICTORS OF ACHIEVEMENT IN LAW SCHOOL, UNDERGRADUATE GRADE POINT AVERAGE (GPA) AND THE LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS TEST (LSAT) SCORE, WERE STUDIED. DATA WERE COLLECTED FOR THE 855 INDIANA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL MATRICULANTS DURING EIGHT CONSECUTIVE YEARS FROM 1957 THROUGH 1964. SEPARATE REGRESSION ANALYSES WERE MADE…

College Entrance Examination Board Scholastic Aptitude Test decile scores for 1106 university freshmen compared (annually for 7 years) with student achievement, attrition, and graduation showed positive correlation for some academic majors and correlations only at the extremes for other majors. Two hundred, or 36% of all drop-outs, were apparently…

The report consists of two parts. Part A discusses the progress made in eight areas: monitor training, monitor selection, attendance, recruitment, class scheduling, I.Q. minimum, student motivation, and financial incentives. Part B discusses the overall progress toward accomplishment of the six major project objectives, which were the following:…

This document analyzes and evaluates the exceptional graduate admissions program at Pennsylvania State University as instituted in 1970. Under this program, traditional admissions criteria are dropped to enable disadvantaged students to attend graduate school. (A previous survey of the Council of Graduate Schools showed that 59% of the member…

Predictability of GPA of college students who successfully appealed admission denial was evaluated by a reciprocal averages technique. Index scores for these high-risk students obtained from 5 of 23 variables correlated significantly with GPA in developmental and cross-validation samples. A trial use of the index to screen in applicants was…

A study focused on two questions: whether the admissions rating scheme of Stanford University could effectively predict academic performance and whether students with different abilities gravitate to different academic departments. The relationship between academic performance and affiliation and such characteristics as sex and ethnic group were…

Students admitted to medical school after three and four years of college were compared on seven admission variables and three measures of medical school performance. The two groups differed significantly on three admission variables but could not be distinguished on the basis of measures of medical school performance. (SW)

The new higher standards required of entering collegiate athletes will not immediately create change in the performance and attitudes of student athletes. Academic performance of student athletes can be enhanced through the development of a comprehensive program fusing the relationship between athletics and academics. (MD)

A study was conducted to determine whether cognitive style and learning style variables are predictive of success in a graduate allied health education program. The results indicated that there was no significant relationship between academic success and the cognitive style variables. (Author/CT)

Reports results of a study of students in programs of the Connecticut Regional Vocational Technical Schools, 1977-79. Comparisons were made between admitted and nonadmitted students and completers and noncompleters. The study was concerned with the prediction of academic grade point average, trade grade point average, and probable school leavers…

Three studies which examine the academic achievement of secondary students in British comprehensive schools as compared to their achievement in selective schools are critiqued. Research problems found in each of the studies are examined. (RM)