THIS ARTICLE REPORTS ON THE STATUS OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PROGRAM TO ADMIT "HIGH RISK" DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS. DATA WERE GATHERED FROM 159 PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTIONS, 84 OF WHICH REPORTED SOME INVOLVEMENT IN PROGRAMS FOR HIGH RISK STUDENTS. DISCUSSED ARE SUCH ISSUES AS THE EXTENT OF THE COLLEGES' COMMITMENT, THE RATIONALE BEHIND THE…

This study is the third in a series to assess the relationship between educational criteria other than grades and the Washington Pre-College (WPC) test battery. Five hundred and ninety-seven returned questionnaires from Seattle-area schools provided post-high school educational criteria to be correlated with WPC test scores and high school grades.…

A visit to five different colleges and universities that have made special efforts to increase their minority enrollments afforded the author insights into the methods they used in selecting students, the problems they faced, and the results of their policies. (Author/RK)

A national survey indicates Black freshman enrollment has increased from three percent in 1969 to five percent in 1976, down from six percent in 1973. Non-Black minority enrollment remains at less than two percent for any group. Private schools have more special programs and retain more minority students. (Author)

The basic conclusions of a study done by the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education was that colleges and professional schools are vigorously engaged in affirmative-action admissions programs, and any restrictions on their freedom to use race as a criterion for acceptance could substantially reduce the participation of minority…

Marco DeFunis' plight to be admitted to the University of Washington's Law School raises the question: Does one group's gain have to be another group's loss? (Author/JP)

Employs concepts from the theory of discrimination in internal labor markets to analyze the declining enrollment of minority students in graduate schools. Describes problems and suggests solutions in recruitment procedures, objective admission standards, subjective screening criteria, and student retention. (KH)

Data collected in Los Angeles indicate that additional financial aid may have a diminishing impact on increasing access. The California Legislature-authorized study revealed that low levels of academic achievement, inadequate information, and inflexible admission policies are greater barriers to college for the poor than financial need.…

The results of this study indicate that for accepted students, grade point average (GPA) adjusted by institutional selectivity was considerably more useful than raw GPA, and perhaps as useful for predicting success as Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) science subscores. (LBH)

The linear correlation between the high school percentile rank and five test scores is examined with regard to Afro-Americans, Spanish-Americans, and white students, and for male and female students. The results raise the question of how ACT and SAT test scores should be used in the admission process. (LBH)

This document, which is not legal advice, has been designed to help medical schools work with legal counsel to put into practice the rulings from two Michigan court cases that provide tools for enhancing medical school diversity and outline the contours of a race-conscious/ethnicity-conscious admissions policy likely to pass legal muster. The…

Discusses the problems and progress of Open Admissions at City University of New York. (DM)

Based on a talk given at the College Entrance Examination Board's colloquium on barriers to higher education, held at Wingspread Conference Center of the Johnson Foundation, Racine, Wis., June 1970 (RJ)

The author argues that to increase the ethnic representation of their student bodies, schools and colleges of allied health will have to increase recruitment efforts and incorporate diversity factors (e.g., consideration of ethnic background, sex, geographic areas, and ability to surmount academic difficulties) into admissions criteria. (Editor)

In the 1970s, school systems across the nation still practiced philosophies which perpetuate injustice and inequality of educational opportunity. Presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, October 1979, St. Louis, Missouri. (Author)