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Social Media & College Admissions: An Analysis of Facebook's Role in College Admissions & Higher Education Marketing
<p>College admissions offices have developed and evolved to include increasingly sophisticated mechanisms for recruiting classes sufficient for meeting the financial needs of their respective institutions, and social media has rapidly become a popular tool for admissions offices in their efforts to …
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Increasing Urban Students’ Knowledge of the College Admissions Process
There is a subsequent need for college admissions advising for urban, minority, or low income students. Urban high school students typically are ill-prepared and uninformed of some of the key components in the college admissions process such as choosing a college, considering academic programs of …
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Acceptance or denial: what matters most in college admissions
… was to investigate the perceptions of selected college admissions officers regarding the most important criteria of a high school senior's application for admission into 4-year public undergraduate colleges and universities in New Jersey. The researcher surveyed admissions officers at eight …
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Integrating Cultural Perspectives of First Generation Latino Students and Families into the College Admissions Process
<p>First generation college-bound Latino students and their families are placed at a disadvantage in the college admissions process for a variety of reasons. Their cultural perspectives in relation to education and family combined with the increasingly widening gap between the working class and …
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Evaluating a Learned Admission-Prediction Model as a Replacement for Standardized Tests in College Admissions
A growing number of college applications has presented an annual challenge for college admissions in the US. In response to this challenge, admission offices have often relied on standardized test scores to parse their large applicant pools into viable subsets. However, this approach may be subject …
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Aspiring to the Baccalaureate: Attitudes of Community College Students Toward Affirmative Action in College Admissions
… African American, Hispanic, and White community college student attitudes toward affirmative action in college admissions. The study examined the association between attitudes toward affirmative action in college admissions and student background characteristics, educational aspirations, …
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Sexuality demographics and the college admissions process: Implications of asking applicants to reveal their sexual orientation
Many universities and colleges are considering if potential students should disclose their sexual orientation when filling out an application for admission. This recent trend, however, has generated a debate among administrators who work directly with LGBT students: What, they wonder, are the …
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The Case for Character Strengths In College Admissions Advising: The Way You Are is a Great Way to Be
Graduating from high school and moving on to college is one of the most important transitions in a young person’s life. Unfortunately, the process leading up to that milestone—during which a student considers and applies to specific colleges—is often viewed as a pointlessly painful gauntlet rather …
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A Study of the Validity of the Essay Test as a College Admissions Screening Factor in Korea: Evaluative Approach to Validation
… evaluates the validity of the essay test as a college admissions screening factor in Korea according to the unified view on validity. In this unified view, which has been regarded as a kind of consensus among current validity theorists, validity is a unitary evaluative judgment making use of …
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The Perceptions Of Secondary Education Guidance Counselors Regarding The Scholastic Aptitude Test And Its Relationship To College Admissions For Low Socioeconomic Students
… status (LES) students as a large impediment to college admission. The problem this transcendental phenomenological qualitative study explored was that the established SAT assessment methods and strategies used for secondary students are inundated with data relevant to only students who are in a …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory: Contests and Matching
… sabotage. The third chapter studies the optimal college admissions mechanism where students are horizontally and vertically differentiated.
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Looking to the future: an examination of the potential for SAT-optional admissions
The use of SAT scores in the college admissions process has been increasingly criticized in recent years for a variety of reasons. There are those who continue to support the use of the SAT in the college admissions process, those who oppose its use, and those who believe the best option is to make …
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A Comparative Study of High School Academic Paths, Grade Point Averages, and ACT Composite Scores as Predictors of Success at Walters State Community College.
… number of students attempting to enter college after high school, the competitive nature of college admissions continues to grow. Colleges and universities are attempting to find the appropriate means to adequately predict collegiate success. Common methods of this prediction have come …
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The Illinois State Seal of Biliteracy: A Policy Advocacy Document
… language skills positively affects students' college admissions and future employment opportunities, preparing them for an increasing global environment.</p>
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A Case Study of Middle Class African American Males Taking Advanced Mathematics Classes in High School
… love of math, counselors, high school graduation/college admissions requirements, peers, and future plans. I conducted a qualitative case study in which students, parents, teachers, counselors, and the math department supervisor were interviewed. The interview questions provided data that were …
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How the internet has impacted college recruitment and admissions
<p>This study provides advice to college admissions and public relations professionals so they can make their college web sites more user friendly.</p> <p>The author surveyed 275 juniors and seniors from six randomly selected Catholic and public New Jersey high schools. There were 261 viable …
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Evaluating The College And Career Readiness Of High School Students In Chicago, Illinois- Strategies, Actions And Policy Implications For School Districts
… candidates for hire graduating from our nation’s colleges and universities and their readiness to be engaged and contribute in their particular workforce and/or industry.</p> <p>As detailed in the book <em>The Global Achievement Gap </em>(Wagner, 2014), this concern arose as the various human …
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The relationship between background variables and the academic performance of college frehmen
… of academic success during the freshmen year of college in order to aid high school counselors and college admissions personnel with students pursuing postsecondary education. Subjects were 87 randomly sampled mid-western freshmen students who were administered the Interpersonal Problem Solving …
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