African American Student Enrollment and Law School Ranking

Reasons for African American student attrition from school psychology programs.

This phenomenological study used a series of three in-depth interviews with seven African American participants, for a total of 21 interviews, to explore their experiences in the specialist and doctoral level school psychology programs they left prior to obtaining a professional entry-level degree. The study's purpose was to investigate what factors contributed to participants' attrition. Findi...

Medical School Ranking and Student Research Opportunities.

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to characterize the current state of student research opportunities in a sample of US medical schools ranked in three different tiers. METHODS The authors examined the websites for five US medical schools in each of the first, second, and third tiers per National Institutes of Health funding and U.S. News & World Report rankings. Available research opportunities wer...

Class Selection Preferences of African-american Millennial Business School Students: a Study of Student Characteristics

In this study, we replicate and extend the research of Milliron (2008) by first examining class selection preferences of accounting classes in a predominantly African-American Millennial and non-Millennial student sample. The focus of the research is to explore whether the Millennial student sample, as in Milliron (2008), attaches lower importance to skill-development in favor of other factors ...

What Predicts Law Student Success? A Longitudinal Study Correlating Law Student Applicant Data and Law School Outcomes

Despite the rise of “big data” empiricism, law school admission remains heavily impressionistic; admission decisions rely on anecdotes about recent students, idiosyncratic preferences for certain majors or jobs, or mainly the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). Yet no predictors are well-validated and studies of the LSAT or other factors fail to control for other factors. The lack of evidence for...

Decline to State: Diversity Talk and the American Law Student