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Hughes, Sherick; Thompson Dorsey, Dana N.; Carrillo, Juan F. – Educational Policy, 2016
Justice Goodwin Liu reexamined seminal affirmative action in higher education legal cases beginning with the landmark 1978 case, "Regents of the University of California v. Bakke" and leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 decision in "Gratz v. Bollinger." Liu argued that the "Bakke and Gratz" lawsuits were…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Higher Education, Court Litigation, Disproportionate Representation
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Samson, Frank L. – Comparative Education Review, 2013
This study identifies a theoretical mechanism that could potentially affect public university admissions standards in a context of demographic change. I explore how demographic changes at a prestigious public university in the United States affect individuals' evaluations of college applications. Responding to a line graph that randomly displays a…
Descriptors: College Admission, Public Colleges, College Applicants, White Students
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Lovenheim, Michael F.; Reynolds, C. Lockwood – Journal of Human Resources, 2013
We use NLSY97 data to examine how home price variation affects the quality of postsecondary schools students attend. We find a $10,000 increase in housing wealth increases the likelihood of public flagship university enrollment relative to nonflagship enrollment by 2.0 percent and decreases the relative probability of attending a community…
Descriptors: College Choice, Housing, Costs, Real Estate
Rizzo, Monica Ellen – Online Submission, 2012
Most American colleges and universities require standardized entrance exams when making admissions decisions. Scores on these exams help determine if, when and where students will be allowed to pursue higher education. These scores are also used to determine eligibility for merit based financial aid. This testing persists even though half of the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Standardized Tests, Test Bias, Scores
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Nieswiadomy, Michael – Journal of Economic Education, 2010
Using 1994-95 and 2002-3 data, the author (1998, 2006) has found that economics majors scored well on the LSAT[R]. These results are frequently posted on university Web sites by economics (and other) departments. The author, who updates the previous studies by using current 2007-8 law school applicants for the 2008-9 class of students entering law…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Economics Education, College Entrance Examinations, Scores
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Baker, Beverly A.; Tsushima, Rika; Wang, Shujiao – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
There are increasing numbers of non-native English speaking applicants to Canadian universities (AUCC 2008a, 2010), which are committed to promoting linguistic and cultural diversity (AUCC 2008b). One result of this trend is that university admissions officers, as gatekeepers, are faced with a growing and potentially confusing array of language…
Descriptors: Admissions Officers, College Admission, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Ganimian, Alejandro; Alfonso, Mariana; Santiago, Ana – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Many school systems today are trying to attract top college graduates into teaching, but little is known about what dissuades this target group from entering the profession. This study randomly assigned applicants for a highly-selective alternative pathway into teaching in Argentina either to a survey about their motivations for applying to the…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries
Daniel, Rhonda – Graduate Management Admission Council, 2015
For its 16th annual Application Trends Survey, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) gathered and analyzed data from a total of 641 graduate business programs located at 306 universities worldwide to understand application volume, the applicant pool, and special efforts being made to attract candidates to graduate management programs.…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Administration, Doctoral Programs
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Mellanby, Jane; Zimdars, Anna – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
A questionnaire was administered to 1,929 applicants to Oxford University, including measures of trait anxiety, behavioural response to examinations and to breakdown in relationships. 635 of these applicants were admitted to the university and of these, 383 also responded to a questionnaire administered 4 years later, just before their final…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Applicants, Academic Achievement, Classification
Efurd, Melissa G. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose for conducting this study was to investigate and describe the relationship between applicant criteria for a dental hygiene program and subsequent outcomes on credentialing exams: the National Board Dental Hygiene Exam and the Southern Regional Testing Agency clinical exam. Because admission criteria play a crucial role in applicant…
Descriptors: Dentistry, Allied Health Occupations Education, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Admission Criteria
Smith, Jonathan; Pender, Matea; Howell, Jessica; Hurwitz, Michael – College Board, 2012
This research quantifies the extent of student-college academic undermatch among the 1992 and 2004 cohorts of graduating high school seniors and documents changes in the extent of academic undermatch over time. Tables are appended.
Descriptors: High School Seniors, High School Graduates, Graduation, College Graduates
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Townsend, James M.; Ryan, Joseph J. – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2010
We assessed the relationship between "U.S. News and World Report" 2008 rankings of clinical psychology doctoral programs and scores earned by graduates on the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP). For the top 25 programs, relationship between ranking and EPPP scores was not significant, r[subscript s] = -0.28. EPPP scores…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Clinical Psychology, Reputation, Correlation
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Neymotin, Florence – Economics of Education Review, 2009
In this paper, I analyze immigration's effect on the SAT-scores and college application patterns of high school students in California and Texas. The student-level dataset used is longitudinal in nature and is matched via a unique algorithm to the Census 2000 summary tabulation files to determine immigration at the local census-place level. The…
Descriptors: Immigration, High School Students, College Applicants, College Entrance Examinations
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Chankseliani, Maia – Comparative Education Review, 2013
The study investigates the chances of gaining admission to Georgian higher education in relation to residential origin. The analysis of broad trends is combined with details from an in-depth individual-level inquiry. Qualitative data on the entire population of 150,000 applicants over the period 2005-9, together with interview data from a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Disadvantaged, Rural Areas, Place of Residence
Nagle, Barry T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Out-of-School Time programs and their impact on standardized college entrance exam scores for black or African-American children of single parents who have applied for a competitive college scholarship program is the study focus. Study importance is supported by the large percentage of black children raised by single parents, the large percentage…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Standardized Tests, Scores, College Entrance Examinations
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