Designed for prospective students at Washington community colleges, this guide provides information about the state's 27 community colleges, their programs, costs, instructors, locations, and admissions procedures. The guide begins by offering general information related to the characteristics of community colleges, two-year college students,…

In fall 1983, work began on the development of a new transfer program at the Community College of Philadelphia. The process began with the replacement of the typical set of introductory courses with a 12-hour curricular unit in which the lectures, readings and other activities were coherently integrated. An "Introduction to Social…

A study was conducted at Nassau Community College (NCC) to determine how transfer students' performance at NCC compared with their performance at baccalaureate institutions; to compare the academic performance of graduate transfers with non-graduate transfers; and to determine what percentage of the transfers graduated from the baccalaureate…

A collection of essays by students at the University of Michigan's Pilot Program, an innovative, 600-student, academic/residential undergraduate unit, written specifically for other college students, is presented. The essays give personal glimpses of college life to college students to help them learn from each other what discoveries and…

Alumni can serve many functions in college admission work. The alumni's greatest asset in admission work is their experience of the alma mater. Having alumni meet with potential students may be the best use of alumni by admission officers. Alumni can meet with prospective students in a variety of contexts. When meeting with students at a function…

Increasing the proportion of prospective students who enter college has been a long-standing objective of colleges. This article summarizes findings concerning the effects and costs of various tactics that public agencies should employ to influence student enrollment decisions. First, the paper describes three phases in the student choice process…

Junior college transfer students enrolled at the University of Missouri in the fall of 1967 and also at the time of the study (1968) were asked to express their perceived needs in eight areas of student personnel services and to rate the adequacy of the University in meeting these needs. A random sample of 45 men and 45 women from the University…

If the transfer student is to benefit from better articulation between 2- and 4-year institutions, factors affecting his success must be evaluated. When an admission policy is altered at the freshman level, it soon affects the transfer and his chance of success must be re-evaluated. Adequate counseling by the senior colleges should prevent a…

A two-week orientation program designed to acquaint pre-freshman engineering students with material relevant to their subsequent curriculum was successful in boosting the students' chances for survival in both engineering and other academic programs. Verified by carefully drawn samples from three separate entering classes, it was found that the…

The three major project objectives were as follows: (1) development of procedures for determining the optimum number of subgroups (and hence, moderated scoring keys) required for maximizing the predictive effectiveness of an inventory; (2) development of a single scale for reporting the scores obtained from a set of moderated keys; and, (3)…

This document is designed to serve primarily as a reference for advisors, counselors, and others in the guidance of students at two-year institutions who plan to transfer to senior colleges and universities of North Carolina. The statements of policies reported herein were obtained through a questionnaire completed by the admissions officers of…

Applications for admission were sent to each of 240 American colleges and universities. All applications were identical except for the race, sex and ability levels of the applicants. The procedure used for preparing the applications is discussed. The authors predicted that blacks would be preferred to whites, and males to females, other things…

Introductory paragraphs review studies by Holland, Thompson and George on the role of external factors in college choice. Particularly, the findings of George suggest that the affective aspects of college choice need to be dealt with. As a result, this study undertook to determine the differences in personality structure between commuter and…