The admissions decisions of a university are one of its four "essential freedoms," and the courts, as a general rule, defer to universities' judgments regarding academic decisions. In many cases, the courts have said that admissions standards cannot be high-handed, arbitrary, or formulated in bad faith, and they must fall within constitutionally…

Presents an examination of graduate admissions data with various analysis techniques. Aggregate data showed a clear but misleading bias against female applicants. When data were properly pooled it was found that there was a small but significantly significant bias in favor of women. (GS)

Presents findings of a survey at the University of Hawaii which studied the admission process of the school which includes a group interview and evaluation of the student. (Author/PG)

Two legal problems highlighted by the DeFunis litigation are: (1) the proper role of race in undergraduate admissions; and (2) the procedure of underground graduate admissions. (Author/KE)

It is the intent of this report to review the history of the Crucial Issues Project and to summarize the activities of the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs and individual NAFSA members as they may relate to concerns raised at the Brainerd, Minnesota meeting in October 1970. Although as many as 12 important issues were identified at…

An Admissions Machine is defined as a sub-set of procedures in a Career Machine which an applicant and an admissions officer can use collaboratively in an interactive interrogation and report system when the applicant expects fair treatment from the admissions officer and the admissions officer trusts the judgment of the applicant concerning the…

In the spring of 1969 a new major program was begun at the State University of New York at Buffalo in which students were allowed to design their own majors if they elected to do so. All majors were to be approved by 2 faculty members and a Special Major Committee. The question arose as to how graduate and professional schools would react to this…

Methods for reevaluating student admission, clinical preparation, and clinical performance evaluation in optometric education are suggested. (MSE)

Medical school students were tested on ethical reasoning to see if a correlation existed between high scores in such reasoning and the medical school admission process. No correlation was found. More work should be done on the philosophical issue of whether ethical thinking should be addressed in medical school admissions. (Author/IS)

Described is the new Medical College Admissions test which will be administered beginning spring 1977. The new test will take six hours to complete and will test science knowledge, analytical skills, science problem solving skills, and verbal relation of information skills on 363 items. (SL)

Explores the success of specially admitted--below traditional standards--graduate students at a major university; using faculty perceptions of student performance and ability as the criteria, the specially admitted students were perceived not to differ from their traditionally admitted cohorts. (Author/JM)

Two admissions models are developed to predict future academic performance of graduate management students. The corrected model, using data obtained from the entire applicant group instead of just those admitted, demonstrated higher predictive ability. (Author/KM)

Discussion of results of the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). (PG)

Rather than have students in high school serve out their senior year, after they had completed all but a few credits for graduation, Midland College established a program, which enabled students to be admitted during their senior year. (RK)