This article describes the use of an admission's portfolio by the graduate degree program in gifted education and talent development at Minnesota State University, Mankato. The benefits of the admission's portfolio are discussed, including retention of students and insights that assist with guiding students toward meaningful graduate products and…

This article focuses on student admissions to charter schools in the United States and to autonomous (foundation and voluntary-aided) secondary schools in England. Analyses of the admissions criteria used by autonomous and nonautonomous secondary schools in England revealed that more autonomous than nonautonomous schools reported using potentially…

This guide is designed to help the prospective clinical psychology graduate student go through the application and selection process necessary for acceptance. Chapter 1 describes the two predominant training models in clinical psychology and alternatives to the discipline itself. Chapter 2 covers the essential preparation needed to enter graduate…

Presents a symposium on the case of reverse racial discrimination debated in Defunis v. Odegaard. Articles include: Racial Preference and Higher Education: The Larger Context; Affirmative Action and Equal Protection; and Constitutional Limitations on Admissions Procedures and Standards. (PG)

Report of a panel discussion presented in a General Meeting at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools, February 1969.

IN ORDER TO COMPLY WITH LEGISLATIVE ACTION, THIS STUDY HAS BEEN PREPARED AS THE FIRST PART OF A PROPOSED TWO-PART SERIES DESCRIBING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF COLLEGE FRESHMEN IN VIRGINIA'S PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION. ADMISSION APPLICATIONS FOR FALL, 1966, WERE RECEIVED FROM 30,996 FRESHMEN. SEVENTY PERCENT OF THE VIRGINIA APPLICANTS WERE…

The medical school admission process is a major determinant of various attributes and characteristics of the American physician manpower pool. This analysis investigated the criteria of national and institutional consequence in selecting students for medical school, the changes in the relative importance of these criteria from 1973 to 1976, the…

The admissions offices of 109 large, primarily white universities returned a questionnaire on their minority admission policies for the sixth consecutive year. The median percent of new black freshmen was down to 5 percent nationally in 1974 compared to 6 percent in 1973, with the largest drops occurring in the Middle States and Western regions.…

This report of the Committee on Admission and Retention of Students is part of Phase III of the Illinois Statewide Plan for Higher Education. Part I examines student retention and attrition and attempts to provide information on (1) student persistence in educational programs entered, (2) trends in the holding power of institutions, (3) reasons…

Minority access to higher education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts falls short of its obligation by nearly 8,000 students. One barrier to minority student access is the location of the state colleges and community colleges, most of which are removed from urban centers where minority populations are concentrated. However extra effort,…

The author presents an economic model for selective admissions to postsecondary nursing programs. Primary determinants of the admissions model are employment needs, availability of educational resources, and personal resources (ability and learning potential). As there are more applicants than resources, selective admission practices are…

After a review of the disadvantages of linear models for estimating the probability of academic success from previous school records and admission test results, the use of a probit model is proposed. The model is illustrated with admissions data from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Montreal. (Author/BW)

As the first stage of a comprehensive study of admissions, a tree model and a linear model were compared in the prediction of admission process screening decisions for a single year's applicants to the Yale University School of Medicine. Cross-validation of the results was also performed on a sample taken from the following year's applicant class.…

Discusses the suit of an unsuccessful white applicant to a state university who discovers that black candidates with lower test scores and grades are being accepted for the entering class for which he has been rejected. His suit against the university alleges a denial of equal protection, contending he was denied admission because of his race.…

This study's main purpose was to determine whether or not standard predictors of college success'' might perform more satisfactorily than usual if a 2-valued criterion based on dropouts was employed. (Author)