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The Graduate Degree Aspirations of Ethnic Student Groups among GRE Test-Takers.

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Centra, John A. – 1979

The degree objectives of prospective graduate students from the various ethnic groups were investigated in this study by using the extensive (200,000 plus) Graduate Record Examination (GRE) registrant population of 1976-1977. GRE scores, undergraduate grade point average, and being a male were the important predictors of students' expectations of…

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