Information regarding multiple college application practices was collected from a large sample of Virginia high school seniors. Results indicated that most college applicants file fewer than three applications and that more applications are filed by students with high academic ability. (Author)

Describes how New York City's unusual compensatory education program helps poor students become good students. (Author/DN)

A student views career education as part of the solution to many of the problems in today's high schools: the emphasis on the college bound student, the lack and/or low regard for skills training, the inadequacy of career counseling, and the students' response to this inattention to their needs. (AG)

An attempt is made to point out that a major fountainhead and source of delinquency in North America is the public schools. Academic performance is a vastly superior predictor of delinquency than is class origin. (FF)

Falling enrollments in universities across the country led to a study to determine what admissions practices were being used. Unused techniques included a batch of gimmicks which could not be called unethical'' but which border on the art of salesmanship. (JC)

Describes the development of a movie and electronic media approach to the recruitment of high school students for the engineering program at Purdue University. Television and radio spots are used. A speakers' group of college students also goes to high schools on invitation. (TS)

Increasing pressures on students to gain admission to highly competitive colleges has brought about an upsurge in tutorial services and the use of sample test questions, which are supposed to guarantee success on college admissions tests. Their effect, at best seems scant. (Author/RK)

Various reasons are given for the unrealiability of class rank as an indicator of academic success; author is head of a small private college-preparatory school. (SP)

Miami-Dade Junior College (Florida) initiated satellite high school counseling centers to assist incoming students in forming their educational goals. (MS)

The study reported here is an attempt to improve on past precedures by using a developmental approach that involves repeated predictor measures over four years, together with GPA criteria including not only level of performance, but also consistency or change throughout undergraduate study. The methods used, however, did not lead to improved…

Describes the college day and college night program presenting the procedures for implementation. (EK)

Revised version of an address presented at the Hessian Institute for Continuing Teacher Education on October 10, 1969. (WB)