March 28, 2008
Students May Not Predict Well What College Is a Good 'Fit,' Study Suggests
New York
Hundreds of studies have examined how reliably colleges' admissions criteria predict the success of their students. But nearly all have been fairly narrow in their focus, looking at just a few common mechanisms for measuring academic ability—high-school grade-point average and scores on the SAT or ACT—and basing their judgments of how well students fare in college largely on their grade-point averages and on whether they graduate.
The College Board—an organization of
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