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Carmichael, Christine M.; Mandulak, Kerry Callahan; Watkins, Diana – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce the interview as a complementary component to the holistic process for graduate admissions. To do so, procedural details of two master's degree programs in speech-language pathology are provided that successfully execute two different but effective interview methods for speech-language…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, College Admission, Masters Programs
Vahed, Sharareh Taghizadeh – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this research is to reveal and compare the language proficiency profiles of Purdue's Chinese and Indian graduate applicants in various disciplines to take a step towards the development of Language Proficiency Literacy (LPL) of graduate admissions decision makers. The study argues that before being able to offer LPL development…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
Over the past 20 years, elite colleges in the US have seen dramatic increases in applications. We provide context for part of this trend using detailed data on Harvard University that was unsealed as part of the SFFA v. Harvard lawsuit. We show that Harvard encourages applications from many students who effectively have no chance of being…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Applicants, Racial Bias, College Entrance Examinations
Taylor Odle; Jennifer A. Delaney; Preston Magouirk – Brookings Institution, 2023
Students enter the college application process on unequal footing--with various levels of financial, social, and cultural capital they can rely on to navigate it. At least 10 states and hundreds of colleges and universities have begun "direct admissions" programs, which proactively admit students using data like their GPA and ACT/SAT…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Admission, Access to Education, Persistence
Stephanie Szczepanski-Dugo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Admission to colleges and universities has sparked much interest over time. There are articles, books, and even movies designed to shed light on the process of being admitted to institutions. One component of the application process that has drawn a lot of attention is the use of standardized test scores. There are both advocates and critics of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, College Entrance Examinations, Scores, Standardized Tests
Knight, Brian G.; Schiff, Nathan M. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
College admissions in the U.S. is decentralized, with students applying separately to each school. This creates frictions in the college admissions process and, if substantial, might ultimately limit student choice. In this paper, we study the introduction of the Common Application (CA) platform, under which students submit a single application to…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Applicants, Barriers, Program Effectiveness
Eli Ben-Michael; Avi Feller; Jesse Rothstein – Grantee Submission, 2023
In a pilot program during the 2016-17 admissions cycle, the University of California, Berkeley invited many applicants for freshman admission to submit letters of recommendation. This proved controversial within the university, with concerns that this change would further disadvantage applicants from disadvantaged groups. To inform this debate, we…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Advocacy, College Applicants, College Admission
Dan Goldhaber; Roddy Theobald; Amy Roth McDuffie; David Slavit; Jennifer Dechaine-Berkas; John M. Krieg; Emma Dewil – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Who ends up in the teacher workforce is greatly influenced by who is admitted into teacher education programs (TEPs). To better understand how the preferences of teacher education faculty might shape admissions of STEM teacher candidates, we surveyed faculty who teach content or methods courses to STEM teacher candidates across five universities.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, STEM Education, Preservice Teachers, Courses
Akhtari, Mitra; Bau, Natalie; Laliberté, Jean-William P. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
Racial affirmative action policies are widespread in college admissions. Yet, evidence on their effects before college is limited. Using four data sets, we study a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that reinstated affirmative action in three states. Using nationwide SAT data for difference-in-differences and synthetic control analyses, we separately…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Entrance Examinations, White Students, Minority Group Students
Stacy McGrath – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The world of healthcare is always changing, but the foundation of quality healthcare remains constant, qualified registered nurses. More students enter community colleges than four-year universities in an attempt to become registered nurses. As the need for registered nurses grows, the number of open slots within community college nursing programs…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Community Colleges, Nursing Education
Reisfeld, Nicole Duval; Kaplan, Stacy Lyn – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2022
Purpose: The primary purpose of this systematic review was to investigate the ability of admission measures to predict clinical skills in graduate students from a variety of health sciences fields. Method: Online databases were searched for research using application measures to make predictions regarding clinical skill development in graduate…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, College Applicants, College Admission, Health Sciences
Carnevale, Anthony; Quinn, Michael C. – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021
Affirmative action critics argue that race-conscious admissions policies are keeping Asian American enrollment numbers unfairly low because Asian American students are held to higher admissions standards than applicants of any other race or ethnicity. "Selective Bias: Asian Americans, Test Scores, and Holistic Admissions" evaluates the…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Asian American Students, College Admission, Pacific Americans
Levine, Phillip B.; Ma, Jennifer; Russell, Lauren C. – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
Do students respond to sticker prices or actual prices when applying to college? These costs differ for students eligible for financial aid. Students who do not understand this may not apply to some colleges because of the perceived high cost. We test for this form of "sticker shock" using College Board data on SAT scores sent, as a…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Student Costs, Tuition, Student Reaction
Bastedo, Michael N.; Glasener, Kristen M.; Deane, K. C.; Bowman, Nicholas A. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Although it is well established that college entrance exams have become a key factor for admission to selective institutions, less is known about the influence of test scores in relation to other academic factors in the evaluation of a student's application file. This study conducts a randomized-controlled trial to determine whether providing…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Low Income Students, College Applicants, College Admission
Al Hashmi, Waleed; Klassen, Robert M. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2020
In Oman, applicants are selected for initial teacher education programs (ITEPs) based mainly on their academic achievements. Applicants' non-cognitive attributes (NCAs) (e.g., resilience and motivation) receive less attention. Situational judgment tests (SJTs) are a type of simulation test that are used in the candidate selection process for…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Academic Achievement, Decision Making, Tests