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Taylor, Janelle S.; Wendland, Claire L.; Kulasegaram, Kulamakan; Hafferty, Frederic W. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
Medical-school applicants learn from many sources that they must stand out to fit in. Many construct self-presentations intended to appeal to medical-school admissions committees from the raw materials of work and volunteer experiences, in order to demonstrate that they will succeed in a demanding profession to which access is tightly controlled.…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Medical Education, College Admission, Admission Criteria
Smith, Melton Dale – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study analyzed admission practices at four-year universities in the United States to determine whether a relationship exists between the score of an individual component of the admission practice and completion of radiologic technology programs. Attrition is a major concern for higher education as funding for higher education continues to…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Radiology, College Admission, Admission Criteria
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Ripsimé K. Bledsoe – Community College Review, 2025
Objective: While much research has been conducted on retention, attrition, and college completion among those who voluntarily withdraw from college, few studies have focused on involuntary withdrawal in the form of academic dismissal. Even less scholarship has examined the subsequent restoration of academic momentum for returning students.…
Descriptors: Reentry Students, Withdrawal (Education), Admission (School), Community College Students
Jessica Jolene White – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many students enter into higher education institutions to pursue degrees in STEM fields with varying levels of academic preparedness, and many students will never finish a college degree. To address academic underpreparedness, many institutions have developed remedial coursework to increase student persistence and graduation rates with varying…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Remedial Instruction, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate
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Qin Liu; Tao Li – SAGE Open, 2024
The relationship between decentralization and inequality remains puzzling. The primary objective of this paper is to study the effects of decentralization on regional education inequality in China where national higher education policies systematically prioritize large cities. We apply the Gini coefficient and the econometric model of regional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization, Equal Education, Higher Education
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Kerrin von Engelhardt – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
This paper describes the Berlin "Abitur" examination in the twentieth century and its written documentation in files. By the late nineteenth century, the "Abitur" examination was fully established in Prussia and with it a graduation certificate that was obligatory for university entrance. Thus, the "Abitur"…
Descriptors: Educational History, Exit Examinations, Secondary School Students, Student Records
James M. Stabler-Havener – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this non-experimental study was to utilize a resource dependence theory (RDT) conceptual framework to examine differences between quality, affordability, and undergraduate enrollment based on private nonprofit four-year colleges and universities' (PCUs) institutional characteristics from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Interaction, Educational Quality, Costs
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Kurysheva, Anastasia; van Rijen, Harold V. M.; Stolte, Cecily; Dilaver, Gönül – International Journal of STEM Education, 2023
This review presents the first comprehensive synthesis of available research on selection methods for STEM graduate study admissions. Ten categories of graduate selection methods emerged. Each category was critically appraised against the following evaluative quality principles: predictive validity and reliability, acceptability, procedural…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Graduate Study, Admission Criteria, College Admission
Bell, Lauren; Peters, Eleanor Eckerson – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2023
This brief is part of the Affirming Equity, Ensuring Inclusion, and Empowering Action initiative. This brief--which draws on a thorough review of existing research, original data analysis, and conversations with institutional leaders and experts--urges college leaders and admissions officials to address longstanding inequities in college access by…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Educational Policy, Equal Education
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Tristan Bunnell; James Hatch – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023
This paper explores the admissions practices of an 'Elite Traditional International School' (ETIS) in a large city in Japan. The school is seeing falling enrolment from its traditional clients e.g.'transnational capitalist class' families working for Embassies and its alumnus, whilst attracting an emergent aspiring locally-based body of parents…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, International Schools, Social Class, Educational Practices
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Graunke, Steven S.; Hansen, Michele J.; Wint, Errol; Moody, Matthew – College and University, 2022
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) was one of many universities that adopted a test-optional admissions policy for the Fall 2021 incoming cohort. However, unlike many institutions that went to test-optional admissions out of necessity, the decision made by IUPUI faculty and administration was thoroughly considered, data…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Educational Policy, College Entrance Examinations
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Kötter, Thomas; Schulz, Johanna Christine; Pohontsch, Nadine Janis – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2022
Places to study at medical schools are scarce, which makes well-designed selection procedures employing criteria with predictive validity for good students and doctors necessary. In Germany, the pre-university grade point average (pu-GPA) is the main selection criterion for medical school application. However, this is criticised. According to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Empathy, Interviews
Jack Mountjoy – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, College Students, Outcomes of Education, Admission Criteria
Robert Thomas Gutman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Low-income students are underrepresented at selective colleges. Most evaluative criteria used by admissions officers are correlated with income, including test scores and performance in high school. Inspired in part by the current state of the use of testing in college admissions, this study examines how the quality of colleges attended by…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Low Income Students, Admissions Officers, Admission Criteria
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Barrett J. Taylor; Kelly Rosinger; Karly S. Ford – Sociology of Education, 2024
Admission to selective colleges has grown more competitive, yielding student bodies that are unrepresentative of the U.S. population. Admission officers report using sorting (e.g., GPA, standardized tests) and concertedly cultivated (e.g., extracurricular activities) and ascriptive status (e.g., whether an applicant identifies as a member of a…
Descriptors: College Admission, Selective Admission, Admission Criteria, Competitive Selection
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