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Johnson, Carol Siri – Online Submission, 2007
Due to the increasing complexity in the financial aid process and the movement of available financial aid up the economic scale, poor people and minorities have less access to college, including engineering programs. Some impediments are lack of access to knowledge about college, increasing complexity and up-front costs in the application process…
Descriptors: Barriers, Access to Education, Student Financial Aid, Student Diversity
Anthony, Thomas S.; Massa, Robert J. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1986
The practices of "gapping" (the practice of meeting only part of the financial need) and denying admission based on need are discussed. Some schools would deny aid to some of those admitted who have financial need. This practice is referred to as "admit/deny." (MLW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Applicants
Council of Ontario Universities, Toronto. – 2002
In August 2001, applicants to Ontario, Canada, universities received a survey from the Council of Ontario Universities to better understand the socioeconomic status and representation of members of recognized designated groups (Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, members of visible minority groups, people with disabilities, and women) in the university…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Applicants, College Students, Equal Education
Trombley, William H., Ed.; Sallo, Todd, Ed. – National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2012
In the first decade of the 21st century, the nation, the states, and colleges and universities began to grapple with the challenges of globalization, changing demography, the implications of the digital era, and of a less expansive public sector. Although not a transformative period for higher education, the decade saw significant innovations in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Community Colleges
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Ziiatdinova, F. G. – Russian Education and Society, 2007
World experience has shown that education alone is able to shape people's desire to organize jointly a more effective life without external coercion. States that are sufficiently aware of the "priority of education" channel the necessary financial resources into that sphere. The developed countries realize up to 40 percent of their gross…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, College Applicants, Educational Policy
Lynch, Kathleen Bodisch; Woode, Moses K. – 1988
A study identifying the relationships between quantitative academic characteristics--specifically, grade point average (GPA) and MCAT scores--and admission into medical school for minorities is presented. Explanations are proposed for contradictory findings related to this question that have appeared in literature. Data from 58 minority student…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, College Applicants, Enrollment Influences
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Anderson, Bernice; McDonald, Ian – Australian Universities' Review, 1986
A study of Australian university and college of advanced studies applicants and rejections in 1986 suggests that between 9,000 and 14,000 applicants eligible and willing to accept a place were unable to begin studies that year. (MSE)
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Applicants, College Choice, Comparative Analysis
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Bone, Ann – Higher Education Review, 1979
Categories to quantify demand include the relevant age group, the staying-on rate, the qualification rate, and the take-up or willingness rate. These are examined for the time span of 1969-70 to 1975-76. It is suggested that more sensitivity is needed to allow demand to make itself felt. (MLW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Applicants, Educational Demand, Educational Supply
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Chang, Mitchell James – Journal of Negro Education, 2000
Compared selected characteristics of high schools attended by students admitted to and denied admission to the University of California Berkeley (UCB) in 1998 and 1999 and California high school students overall. Discrepancies between school characteristics were found for the first two groups in 1998, but by 1999 the high school profiles of these…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Admission, College Applicants, Higher Education
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Martin, Isaac; Karabel, Jerome; Jaquez, Sean W. – Educational Policy, 2005
Using institutional data on fall 1999 freshman admissions, we document the existence and magnitude of inequalities among California high schools in the access they provide to the University of California (UC). Because high schools are segregated by socioeconomic status and race, we examine how schools that differ on these dimensions also differ in…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Segregation, College Applicants, Access to Education
Wisconsin Univ. System, Madison. Office of Policy Analysis and Research. – 2001
Maintaining a high service rate (defined as the proportion of high school graduates enrolling at a University of Wisconsin (UW) System institution for the following fall term) for Wisconsin high school graduates is one of the goals identified in the second phase of accountability reporting by the UW System. The population of 1999 Wisconsin high…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Applicants, College Entrance Examinations, Family Income
Ashby, Cornelia M. – 2002
The District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999 created a grant program with the purpose of expanding higher education choices for college-bound District of Columbia residents. This program, the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant (TAG) Program, addressed the concern that D.C. students were at a disadvantage because the District of Columbia lacks a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Applicants, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Legislation
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Jackson, Gregory A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1982
A model of student sociological and economic choice processes in higher education enrollment is described. The model includes choice by preference, exclusion, and evaluation options. Choice tactics are discussed, including academic experience, efficiency, tradeoffs, and agency decisions. Public policy implications are considered. (CM)
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Admission, College Applicants, College Choice
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Tanner, Jeffery M.; Shute, R. Wayne – College and University, 1999
Compared ACT Assessment scores, especially in Social Science, and first year college grades for U.S. and Canadian students admitted to Brigham Young University to see if admissions policies were biased against Canadians. Results did not show discrimination by the ACT Assessment, but did show that Canadian students outperformed their U.S.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Admission (School), Admission Criteria
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Donovan, Richard A. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1978
If only to prepare themselves for possible court challenges, colleges will have to discover or design additional, racially neutral ways to measure a student's aptitude.
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission (School), College Applicants, Higher Education
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