Gradual college admission

College Admission and High School Integration ∗

We investigate whether a policy that bases college admission on relative performance can modify the degree of racial or ethnic segregation in high schools by inducing students to relocate to schools with weaker competition. Theoretically, such school arbitrage will neutralize the admissions policy at the college level. It will result in partial desegregation of the high schools if flows are suf...

College Admission Policies and the Educational Pipeline:

Several recent state government decisions banning use of race-sensitive criteria in college admission decisions pose a challenging dilemma for higher education because ethnoracial diversity of the school-age population has increased dramatically since 1960 and persisting race and ethnic inequities in high school attainment restrict the pool of students admissible to colleges and universities. I...

[The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)].

An Analysis of The Chinese College Admission System

This thesis focuses on the problems of the Chinese University Admission (CUA) system. Within the field of education, the system of university admissions involves all of Chinese society and causes much concern amongst all social classes. University admissions have been researched since the middle of last century as an issue which has economic impact. However, little attention has been paid to th...

A predictive validity study of the Pharmacy College Admission Test.

OBJECTIVE To examine the validity of Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT) scores for predicting grade point averages (GPAs) of students in years 1-4 of pharmacy programs. METHODS Data were collected from 11 colleges and schools of pharmacy: entering cumulative and math/science GPAs, PCAT scaled scores, pharmacy program GPAs for years 1-4, student status after 4 years. Correlation, regressio...