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Books on: college admission

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Handbook for the College Admissions Profession

Book by Claire C. Swann, Stanley E. Henderson; Greenwood Press, 1998

Subjects:

College Admission Officers--United States--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, Universities And Colleges--United States--Admission--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...comprehensive information from colleges and universities about their admission, financial costs...information from the college about its process and...high school for filing college applications. It is...or interviews at colleges of your choice. After You Receive Your Admission Decisions: You must notify each college or university which...
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No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life

Book by Thomas J. Espenshade, Alexandria Walton Radford, Chang Young Chung; Princeton University Press, 2009

Subjects:

Elite (Social Sciences)--United States, Minorities--Education (Higher)--United States, Minority College Students--United States--Social Conditions, Private Universities And Colleges--United States--Admission

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...necessary for elite college admission, it is not enough...prepared for their colleges academic workload...the rigors of the college classroom, it may...provide advantages in college admission beyond just solid...
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Choosing Students: Higher Education Admissions Tools for the 21st Century

Book by Wayne J. Camara, Ernest W. Kimmel; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

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Universities And Colleges--United States--Admission

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...assumption held by many college and university personnel...could be of use in the admissions process if the assessments...and reward of college admission. A proficiency-based admission system can provide...PROFICIENCY-BASED ADMISSION STANDARDS SYSTEM? A proficiency-based admissions system has several...
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The Retreat from Race: Asian-American Admissions and Racial Politics

Book by Dana Y. Takagi; Rutgers University Press, 1992

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Asian American College Students--Case Studies, Discrimination In Higher Education--United States--Case Studies, Universities And Colleges--United States--Admission--Case Studies

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...in California? Most admissions officers would say...successful work at an elite college, the admission of either would depend...back needed for the college team, or he could...being considered for admission. Similarly, the Korean...values are defining admissions selection decisions...
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The Complete Guide to Graduate School Admission: Psychology, Counseling, and Related Professions

Book by Patricia Keith-Spiegel, Michael W. Wiederman; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000

Subjects:

Psychology--Study And Teaching (Graduate), Universities And Colleges--Admission

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...1997 . Bearsguide to earning college degrees nontraditionally...masters degree for gaining admission to doctoral programs in psychology...1091. Hines D. 1986 . "Admission criteria for ranking masters...The GRE in the graduate admissions process: Is how it is used...Sayette M. A. 1994 . Admission requirements, acceptance...

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Journal Articles on: college admission

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College Admission in a Contested Marketplace: the 20th Century and a New Logic for Access

Journal article by Ezekiel Kimball; Journal of College Admission, 2011

Subjects:

College admissions, Colleges & universities, Higher education, Student loans

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...sum game - one that some colleges would win at the expense of others. As a result, colleges began to compete aggressively...recruitment efforts. As the colleges geared up their efforts, college guides began to emphasize...should realize that all admission officers have biases and...increase ones chances of admissions" (Hayden, 1981, xv...
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Admission Heal Thyself: a Prescription for Reclaiming College Admission as a Profession

Journal article by Jim Jump; Journal of College Admission, 2004

Subjects:

College admissions, Professions

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...want the college admission process to represent...vision is that college selection is a...personal. All colleges are not alike...If we dont want admission to be a game...mission" in admission. The word "admission...The core of college admission is a colleges mission and those...idea that pushes college admission toward...
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A Study of Admission Officers' Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Homeschool Students

Journal article by Paul Jones, Gene Gloeckner; Journal of College Admission, 2004

Subjects:

Admissions policies, Attitudes, College admissions, Home education, Perceptions, Student recruitment, United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Association for College Admission Counseling, Rocky Mountain Association for College Admission Counseling...Western Association for College Admission Counseling...policies of four-year colleges and universities in...three-fourths of the colleges and universities in...official homeschool admission policy. Barnebeys...percent of the community college admission officers...
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Toward Reflective Admission Work

Journal article by Mark A. Hicks, Carla Shere; Journal of College Admission, 2006

Subjects:

Admissions policies, Advisors, College admissions, College students, Colleges & universities, Minority students, Professional responsibilities, School counseling, United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...the environment of the college admission staff, and how the...central components of admission work. For the most part, colleges require students to...recruitment strategies. The admission officers researched college fairs and high school...
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Community College Admission and Student Retention

Journal article by Marcia A. Roman; Journal of College Admission, 2007

Subjects:

College admissions, College students, Community colleges, Higher education, Learning, Student retention

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Community College Admission and Student Retention...Roman Community Colleges Community colleges...offered in community colleges. Admission staff can also...The Community College Research Center...promise and what the colleges deliver. Although...importance of admission counseling to...The work of admissions officers should...

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Magazine Articles on: college admission

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The New College Chaos: College Admissions Officers Say They Now Have Many, Many More Applications Than They Know How to Handle-And, Often, Less Reliable Information to Help Them Decide Which Students to Admit

Magazine article by James Fallows; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 292, November 2003

Subjects:

College admissions--Management, College admissions--Standards

Collections: Entire Library

...highest rate of admission turned out to...applications"--and colleges notice. The...the dean of admissions and financial...applications: the college admissions staffs...students. An admissions dean at one college reported getting...school class. Colleges dont always know...to travel for college visits are also...obviously not the colleges" intention...uncertainty and make admissions more businesslike...
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The Big Picture: Our Annual Survey of the Admissions Landscape Uncovered Recent and Upcoming Changes to the Process, Growing Concern about Tuition Increases, and Serious Questions about Whether Colleges Are Fulfilling Their Mission

Magazine article by James Fallows, V.V. Ganeshananthan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 294, October 2004

Subjects:

College admissions--Comparative analysis, College admissions--Management, College admissions--Surveys, Education, Higher--Evaluation, Education, Higher--Services, Higher education--Evaluation, Higher education--Services

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Parker, the dean of admission and financial aid...the director of college counseling at the...marketization of the admissions process has only...students into exclusive colleges. This pressure...just need-blind admissions but "class-based...Selective College Admissions," Anthony Carnevale...argued that elite-college admission was far more heavily...the most selective colleges," they wrote...
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Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor: Our Author Looks at Books about College Admissions - and at the Unexamined Prejudices Fueling the "Elite" College Admissions Frenzy

Magazine article by Caitlin Flanagan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 288, September 2001

Subjects:

College admissions

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...inexplicable notions about colleges that I felt nostalgic for...the best-prepared for college in North America; in a...class were going off to colleges that most high school seniors...crossed the threshold of the college-counseling office. Or...in the face of the thorny admissions climate. But invariably...1990 essay titled "College Admission as a Failed Rite of Passage...
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Cracking the College Admissions Code: Increase the Odds of Getting Your Children into Their First-Choice Schools

Magazine article by Jr. Kingsley Kanu; Black Enterprise, Vol. 39, September 2008

Subjects:

College admissions, College attendance--Planning, College attendance--Statistics, College enrollment--Planning, College enrollment--Statistics, Universities and colleges--Rankings, Universities and colleges--United States

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...Consider attending a community college before reapplying. You...improve your chances of admission over other transfer students...dedication to the school. Colleges track the conferences and...opportunity to interact with the college. A call or an e-mail to the admissions office stating that you...Gia Parker How the Top 50 Colleges Made the Grade To develop...
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The End of College Admissions as We Know It: Everything You've Heard about Getting in Is about to Go out the Window

Magazine article by Kevin Carey; Washington Monthly, Vol. 43, September 2011

Subjects:

College admissions--Forecasts and trends, College admissions--Methods, High school students--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: Entire Library

...on identifying the colleges that might meet them...is the future of college admissions. The market for matching colleges and students is about...them, or that the colleges generous financial...technological advance in college admissions had happened...to get in. Most admissions directors dont lose...applications, the lower the admission rate, the better...

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Newspaper Articles on: college admission

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A Peek in the Life of ... a College Admissions Adviser

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 27, 2009

Subjects:

College admissions, Teenage girls, Universities and colleges

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

A Peek in the Life of ... a College Admissions Adviser. AS a customer services manager for UCAS, which processes applications for higher education, Kate Butland (right...
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Hard Work Pais Off. Employment FOCUS the Universities and Colleges' Admissions Cycle for 2008 Is Now Underway, and School Pupils Are Making Decisions That Will Shape Their Future Lives and Careers

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), October 18, 2007

Subjects:

College admissions, Decision making, Decision-making

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...FOCUS the Universities and Colleges Admissions Cycle for 2008 Is Now Underway...recent merger with Bell College means there has never been...the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC). This will see...Paisley has merged with Bell College
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Equal Opportunities . . . Not Outcomes; 'Holistic' Downgrading of College Admissions Standards?

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 20, 2009

Subjects:

Universities and colleges

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...out in the way colleges and universities...another widely used college admissions test, have long...arbitrary as college admission standards may...whims of shifting admissions policies and...Writer and college educator Mary...gets admitted to colleges and universities...notes that colleges with test optional admission policies could...determining which college to attend. The...
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Crashing into College; Competition for Admission Is Pricey Ticket to Success

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), April 7, 2011

Subjects:

Universities and colleges

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Crashing into College; Competition for Admission Is Pricey Ticket to Success. Byline...SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES The college acceptance letters have landed...for insights into suffering. The college essay had been a badly handled...
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Test-Optional Colleges Won't Require SATs; Shift to 'Holistic Admissions'

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 17, 2007

Subjects:

Universities and colleges

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to Holistic Admissions. Byline...learn that some colleges allow prospective...He said many college officials feel...McCullough, dean of admission at Gonzaga...spokeswoman for the College Board - which...of 4-year colleges that are selective...standardized test for admission. While she...Registrars and Admissions Officers...Syverson, dean of admissions and financial...Maines Bates College, which adopted...optional admission policy in 1984...when these colleges make SAT scores...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: college admission

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Quincy, Josiah , 1772–1864, American Political Leader and College President

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1772 1864, American political leader and college president 1772 1864, American political leader and college president, b. Braintree, Mass.; son...became minority leader. Speaking against admission of Louisiana as a state, he declared...
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Dennett, Tyler

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...of Williams (1934 37) he was a sharp critic of the New Deal, but favored the admission of more high school graduates to the institution, saying that a college should not be an exclusive club for the wealthy and wellborn. Disagreement with...
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Davies, Emily

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...feminist, co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge. Educated at home...of a committee to obtain the admission of women to university examinations...was also secretary, to form a college for women. The college was organized at Hitchin, Hertfordshire...
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Open Enrollment

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...ENROLLMENT a policy of admitting to college all high-school graduates...attend a two-year community college. New York Citys plan, begun...vocational, a place in a city college. In the 1980s and 90s many...such policies and tightened admission requirements. See D. Lavin...
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Metternich, Clemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, FÜrst Von

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Wenzel von Kaunitz. She brought Metternich great estates and admission to the highest court circles. Metternich began his state career in 1797 as representative of the Westphalian college of counts at the Congress of Rastatt, and he became Austrian...

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