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Chesnut, Renae J.; Phillips, Charles R. – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 2000
This study indicates that most pharmacy programs utilize academic and nonacademic admission information sources and that they feel they are meeting the adopted American Council of Pharmaceutical Education Guideline 16.3 which requires that pharmacy programs use other than academic information sources in the admission process. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Higher Education, Pharmaceutical Education
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Dehne, George C. – Journal of College Admissions, 1985
Describes the use of research-based and personal-based aspects of student recruitment and suggests that a creative combination of the two can lead to a more effective admissions program. (JAC)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Higher Education, Marketing, Models
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Wilson, Thad – Journal of Nursing Education, 1999
The following criteria considered important predictors of academic and professional success were used to develop a selection method for a graduate nursing program: grade point average, nationally recognized examination, references, nursing experience, career progression, and professional development activities. (SK)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Nursing Education
Bryson, Seymour; Bardo, Harold – Journal of Non-White Concerns in Personnel and Guidance, 1979
Examines several activities that directly influence the future of special educational programs in higher education and presents problems that must be resolved if significant expansion of special educational programs is to be achieved. Funding, staffing, and accountability are discussed in detail and other crucial areas are reviewed. (Author)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Black Education, Black Students, Higher Education
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Hiss, William C. – Journal of College Admission, 1992
Describes experience of Bates College with optional testing, summarizing results of optional Scholastic Aptitude Tests over five years and presenting snapshot of totally optional testing over one year. Discusses enrollment, predictive, and ethical implications of an optional testing policy. Concludes with some brief speculations on definitions of…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Higher Education
Megargee, Edwin J. – 1990
This is a guidebook written to help graduate students in clinical psychology from a variety of programs obtain internships at training programs across the country. Chapter 1 discloses the politics and power relationship among internship training directors, university faculties, and internship applicants, and describes how they influence guidelines…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Clinical Psychology, Graduate Students, Higher Education
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Spoleti, Linda Higgins – Clearing House, 1995
Describes how students learn and how they are evaluated at the secondary level in the Hungarian school system. Notes also the process and standards for university admission. (SR)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Secondary Education
Greene, Elizabeth – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Students Against Testing, a Brown University student group that seeks to either abolish or reform the Scholastic Aptitude Test is discussed. As a result of a letter-writing drive, students on at least 50 campuses are seriously considering starting similar efforts next fall. (MLW)
Descriptors: Activism, Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
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Nakanishi, Don T. – Journal of College Admissions, 1988
Based in part on four-year data collection project concerned with the Asian Pacific admission issue at private and public colleges in California and the Northeast, this article examines Asian Pacific Americans and the obstacles they face in undergraduate admission to colleges. Explores differences in admit rates between Asian Pacific Americans and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Asian Americans, College Admission, College Students
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Hargadon, Fred – American Psychologist, 1981
Discusses different emphases placed by institutions of higher education on a range of admissions criteria including academic performance, evidence of graduation, letters of recommendation, personal essays, and interviews. Concludes that standardized tests are not the pervasive barrier to higher education in the United States that many test critics…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Opportunities
Linn, Robert L.; Dunbar, Stephen B. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1982
Presents the drastic effects that selection on several variables can sometimes have on the validity of predictor variables. Discusses practical implications of correcting correlations for selection effects and reporting results of validity studies. (Author)
Descriptors: Admission (School), Admission Criteria, College Students, Correlation
Hirschorn, Michael W. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
The rise in the number of students who showcase their particular talents on videos sent along with written applications to college admissions offices is discussed. Most are tapes of the student performing on stage or in sporting events, but some range from visual autobiographies to comic and dramatic productions. (MLW)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Applicants, College Bound Students
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Tyson, Daniel C. – Journal of College Admissions, 1982
Describes a map designed to help students chart a college application strategy. The map locates each student on a grid by academic coordinates based on G.P.A. and test score index. Colleges are located on the same grid by identifying students admitted and circling dots representing academic locations. (RC)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Applicants, College Choice
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Walsh, John – Science, 1981
Due to increasing enrollments in engineering programs and shortages of faculty, resources, and finances, Iowa State University has avoided limits on admissions by extending time to earn a degree. (SK)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Science, Computer Science Education, Engineering
McInnis, Craig – 1993
This paper provides an account of individual and collective academic values under the pressure of government policy for social equity in selective admissions at one Australian university. A survey of faculty (N=93) from Law, Social Work, Science, and Architecture identified their goals related to the goals of the university and fairness in…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Faculty
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