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Download full textLena Shi – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Students' college choices can affect their chances of earning a degree, but many lack the support to navigate the opaque college application and admissions process. This paper evaluates whether guaranteeing four-year college admissions based on transparent academic standards affected community college students' enrollment choices and graduation…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Admission, College Transfer Students, Admission Criteria
Westrick, Paul A.; Marini, Jessica P.; Shaw, Emily J. – College Board, 2020
This report examines the value of SAT scores for determining merit-based scholarship decisions as well as admission to highly selective academic programs such as honors programs or colleges. Results show that the SAT is a highly effective tool for predicting students' chances of earning a first-year grade point average (FYGPA) of 3.00 or higher…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Merit Scholarships, Decision Making, Competitive Selection
Peer reviewedArmendáriz, Joyzukey; Tarango, Javier; Machin-Mastromatteo, Juan Daniel – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2018
This descriptive and correlational research studies 15,658 students from 335 secondary schools in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, through the results of the examination of admission to high school education (National High School Admission Test--EXANI I from the National Assessment Center for Education--CENEVAL) on logical-mathematical and verbal…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Competition, Junior High Schools, Correlation
In the Spirit of William Georgetti: Scrutiny of a Prestigious National Scholarship Selection Process
Direct linkSchluter, Philip J.; Johnston, Lucy – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
Postgraduate scholarship programmes are increasingly important for supporting gifted students from diverse backgrounds. Systems and processes in the application, determination and delivery of scholarships must be robust, transparent, accountable and equitable. However, they are rarely evaluated. One of the most prestigious scholarships in New…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Scholarships, Selection Criteria
de Visser, Marieke; Fluit, Cornelia; Fransen, Jaap; Latijnhouwers, Mieke; Cohen-Schotanus, Janke; Laan, Roland – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
In the Netherlands, students are admitted to medical school through (1) selection, (2) direct access by high pre-university Grade Point Average (pu-GPA), (3) lottery after being rejected in the selection procedure, or (4) lottery. At Radboud University Medical Center, 2010 was the first year we selected applicants. We designed a procedure based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Schools, College Admission, Selective Admission
Campaign for College Opportunity, 2021
The value of a college degree continues to rise. A bachelor's degree in particular provides unrivaled economic and health benefits not just for the individual earning the degree, but for the entire state. Therefore, it is not surprising to see growing demand for a college education coupled with growing eligibility for California's public…
Descriptors: State Universities, Access to Education, College Admission, College Bound Students
Allison, Aaron A.; Colson, Tori L. – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2017
This study examined the trends in enrollment numbers and academic quality of first-year Tennessee students on the merit-based portion of the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship (TELS) upon HBCU's and religiously focused institutions in Tennessee from 2005-2014. The researchers hypothesized that the merit-based portion of the TELS was a…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Competitive Selection, Admission (School), Black Colleges
