Explores common institutional strategies for pricing, awarding aid, and controlling the growth of aid budgets in light of changing recruitment practices. Concludes by discussing the new services that aid offices must provide to meet their new challenges effectively. Discusses net tuition revenue goals to enhance effective management of resources.…

A South African study explored predictors of success among 18 educationally disadvantaged and 8 advantaged students in a University of Witwatersrand developmental studies program. Results showed academic success was considerably less predictable among disadvantaged students. Universally-used admission criteria were not predictive for either group;…

Examines affirmative action in higher education and the different legal challenges faced by this policy. Explores the need for diversity and discusses the many obstacles which still block equal opportunities in education. Offers some solutions to the problem of equality, such as tuition aid, Pell grants, and pre-collegiate outreach. (RJM)

Defends affirmative action and explains its historical principles in order to dispel myths surrounding the program. Discusses the pervasiveness of inequality in society and discusses ways that decision makers in higher education can respond to critics of affirmative action. Examines college admission needs and the current legal and political…

Interviewed five people on campuses across the country who play different roles within higher education and who have different perspectives on affirmative action. Looks at how these persons conceptualize affirmative action, the program's economic issues, the value of diversity, the effects of affirmative action on campuses, and the questions…

Traces developments following warnings that tests used for teacher education admission or licensure may prevent capable African Americans from entering teaching, using elementary student teachers' evaluations and test scores to examine the possible impact on newly licensed teachers' effectiveness if passing cutoff scores were raised by one point.…

Discussion of efforts to improve availability of primary health care in rural areas addresses student selection, curriculum, training environment, and special inducements, and controversial areas such as rural training sites, merging of specialties, and compromise of residency continuity. It is proposed that basic institutional philosophical…

The development of a multiple regression equation for predicting an optometry grade point average and a discriminative function designed to distinguish between students likely and unlikely to have academic difficulty is described. Variables used include grades, test scores, undergraduate college competitiveness, and a measure of academic…

A 1970 essay concerning the laws of temerity, or disregard for danger, is reexamined, and its relevance for contemporary college registrars and admissions officers is discussed. The laws concern apparent and real power on campus, considered vs. intuitive decision making, choice of battle and battleground, creative problem solving, consultation,…

Forty-nine students that had participated in a summer enrichment program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine were offered admission and ultimately enrolled in 17 different medical schools. The relationship between their admission and their grade point averages and Medical College Admission Test scores was examined. (MLW)

Describes a model, developed by the Educational Studies Division at Marian College of Fond du Lac, for recruiting minority students for the teaching profession. Provides a step-by-step outline for early intervention programs that can be used by schools or colleges to encourage more underrepresented students to enroll in college, regardless of…

Baruch College (New York) recently conducted a cohort study relating factors used in Masters in Business Administration admissions with first year grade point average in the program. Data from the fall 1986 entering cohort strongly supported the value of the Graduate Management Admission Test in predicting first year grades. (MLW)

Many medical schools are paying closer attention to the interview as a powerful recruiting tool. Interviews can be unstructured, semistructured, or structured. A major problem with interviews is the interviewers' bias. Research reports of structured, semistructured, and unstructured interviews in the psychology and the medical education literature…

An experienced former dean of admission turned educational consultant discusses and analyzes the role of the educational consultant in college admission. Concludes that effective college counseling teaches students the skills and curriculum that contribute to thoughtful, appropriate decisions. (TE)

Describes growing popularity and shortcomings of commercially published guidebooks which rate and/or evaluate colleges and universities. Suggests questions counselors should pose when evaluating guidebooks. States National Association of College Admission Counselors' policy to not encourage or participate in any evaluation system undertaken for…