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Young, Nicholas T.; Caballero, Marcos D. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
One argument for keeping the physics Graduate Record Exam (GRE) is that it can help applicants who might otherwise be missed in the admissions process stand out. In this work, we evaluate whether this claim is supported by physics graduate school admissions decisions. We used admissions data from five Ph.D.-granting physics departments over a…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, College Applicants, Selective Admission
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Cano, Annmarie; Wurm, Lee H.; Nava, Jennifer; McIntee, Farron; Mathur, Ambika – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2018
The purpose of this research was to examine whether decisions made at one stage of strategic and graduate enrollment management, the admission phase, depend on both applicant and faculty characteristics. Faculty participants (N=62) were randomly assigned to read one of four vignettes of a prospective applicant to their doctoral program. They then…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Graduate Students, Teacher Characteristics, College Faculty