Based on data provided by the City University of New York (CUNY) University Application Processing Center, this report compares applicants to CUNY for admission in fall 1972 who were accepted and then enrolled with those who were accepted but did not enroll. Of the applicants who were accepted as fulltime, day-session freshmen matriculants, more…

Reviews differences in students rejected and accepted to an engineering school in Israel. (HS)

Data are given about the progress of 2,000 students who entered the University of Newcastle upon Tyne who were not qualified in the conventional sense. The success rate of these students has been slightly higher than that of students meeting the usual qualifications. (PP)

Analyzing the program listings in the publication "Graduate Study in Psychology," this report discusses characteristics of students admitted to graduate programs in 1980-81. The number of applications received and the number of students accepted are recorded for each program. (RM)

Discusses the actual uses to which achievement test scores are put in the college admissions process (according to survey findings) and factors that should be considered when treating test scores as admission criteria. (PGD)

This article from the "Journal of College Admission's" Special Diversity Issue (which in its entirety won the 1997 Muir Award), presents a compilation of three speeches, given at the 51st National Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. The preface, by Mary Lee Hoganson, serves to bind the three speeches together under the cohesive question, "Are…

This article identifies the characteristics of learning diabled education majors, examines the underlying legal issues presently affecting teacher education, and proposes equitable guidelines and procedures for ensuring quality preservice training for the learning-disabled. (Author/CB)

A study of the effectiveness of ridge regression over ordinary least squares regression as applied to both cognitive and noncognitive admissions data is reported. Separate race equations and a general equation were used. The analysis used did not improve on existing regression analyses. (MSE)

Unlike traditional students, most nontraditional students lack a history of active contact with institutions of higher education. Recruiting programs directed at the non-traditional student need to be highly individualized. A marketing survey approach can be used to custom-design special course offerings. (Author)

Results support the adaptation-level hypothesis with regard to college grading standards for low and middle ability levels with weaker support for the hypothesis at the high ability level. Implications for major field enrollment, changing admission standards, and evaluating admission experiments are discussed. (Author/BJG)

This presentation describes a program at Southeastern Louisiana University (SLU) which successfully prepares candidates for certification in secondary education. It is an alternative plan to the usual four-year undergraduate program. Candidates must have completed a baccalaureate degree with a major in a certification area and must have attained…

A FACTOR ANALYSIS OF 28 INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ALL CANADIAN AND AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES (N-100) WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DEVELOP A DESCRIPTIVE PROFILE OF MEDICAL COLLEGE ENVIRONMENTS. THE 28 VARIABLES INCLUDED TYPE CHARACTERISTICS, ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS, STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, AND A MISCELLANEOUS CHARACTERISTICS CATEGORY. PRODUCT MOMENT…