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Atherton, Graeme – Sutton Trust, 2021
England has a 'pre-qualification' system of higher education admissions, where applications and offers are made to young people before exam results are received. While in most cases offers are conditional on achieving a grade target in A Level exams, recent years have seen an exponential growth in 'unconditional offers', where the offer of a place…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Universities, Qualifications
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Saavedra, Anna Rosefsky; Lavore, Elisa; Flores-Ivich, Georgina – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
In this study we analyse the relationship between Mexican students' enrolment in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) and their college preparedness using a case-study methodology. We found that from the Mexican schools that offer the IB DP, most IB students are fairly successful in their college applications, such that the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Advanced Placement Programs, Case Studies, College Preparation