This report summarizes the trends in transfer students at Maryland public higher education institutions during the past 10 years, 1993-2002. Specifically, the figures include the number of students enrolled at a community college in the fall of each year who transferred to a public four-year institution by the fall of the following year; the…

Reports on a study designed to assess the career plans and related attitudes of students about to enter college. (RP)

Describes Bartram High's motivation program and its success in helping lagging students become college bound. (GB)

The present investigation reveals the relative importance attributed to specific requirements for admission by 189 college admissions officers. (Author)

The study reveals that counselors have more educational contacts with students less disposed toward higher education; student's educational goals and intelligence exert a direct effect on the educational advice received; and the counselor has an incremental effect on the student's educational expectations independent of the influences of the…

A review of the literature makes it clear that high school record has been and is a valid and possibly even an increasingly important predictor of college work. (Author)

Describes a one-week guidance program that allows high school students to actively participate as engineers in a simulated engineering environment. The program is designed to allow students to review engineering as a possible career. (Author/TS)

Described is a cooperative relationship among high schools and colleges in New Mexico that has led to more effective services to prospective college students. A College Day Program is described and evaluated. (Author/CJ)

Goal of this program is to place the migrant and seasonal farm worker youth dropouts into vocational training, good-paying jobs with a future, or college. (DM)

Emphasizes the qualitative and quantitative decline of transfer education. Recommends ways to revitalize the community college's transfer function through external and internal community involvement, including the public, four-year institutions and secondary schools and two-year college students, faculty, counselors, and administrators. Describes…

Evaluates the efforts to reform the upper level of the West German gymnasium so that it can better prepare students for university study. The pilot experiments show both successes and failures in the reform efforts. There is a need for colleges to improve their teacher education programs. (AM)

The purpose of this study was to determine the predictive validity of composite scores on the National Educational Development Tests for College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test total scores. The subjects were 69 students in a private college preparatory school for girls. The correlation of .76 was statistically significant. (Author/CTM)