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Show College Standards - Up Up Up f r Money and desire may have once been the keys to the doors of higher education, but no more. Increased enrollment has forced greater selectivity in the acceptance of college applicants. appli-cants. In response to a questionnaire question-naire from the Office of Institutional Institu-tional Research, 86 of the 97 members of the Association of State Universities and Grant Colleges said that lack of space and facilities has compelled them to raise their entrance standards. Out of necessity many qualified qual-ified students must be turned away. In answer to this survey 21 schools said they had always al-ways been selective to some degree and 59 said they had originally admitted all graduates grad-uates of accredited high schools within their states. Out of the 59 only 22 have become selective in the past five years. Only four state universities are required by state law to admit all graduates grad-uates of accredited high schools in their states Kansas, Montana, Ohio, and Wyoming. Various qualifications other than the strictly academic are down enrollment. The universities univer-sities of Kansas and Nebraska 'use "dissuasive counseling" with marginal students. At Ohio's public universities graduates ranking in the lower third of their class can not enter en-ter during the fall term, but during another part of the academic aca-demic year. The University of Minnesota's General College has merely limited their fall enrollment en-rollment to 4000 freshmen and sophomores. High school students desiring entrance into universities and colleges are almost all rated in the upper half of their graduating grad-uating classes and about half come from the top quarter. Academically speaking, the various newly selective colleges col-leges have different means of thinning out the applicants. The University of Maryland requires a C average in the last two years of college prep courses. Those that fall below be-low the minimum, however, may still qualify after taking a pre-college summer course. Iowa State requires a special test and a personal Interview for students in the lower half of their graduating class. Some institutions require only that the applicant be in the upper 75 per cent of his graduating class. Included among these are Arizona State, the University of Arizona, the University of Mississippi and Oklahoma State. The University of Wisconsin requires only "evidence of ability abil-ity to do satisfactory work." New Mexico State may accept what is considered a poor risk student if there u i maturity andJS, " AH of the resnnnH' tutions said engJU ments were higher 1 state students I B '"g to note also ' l there are no requirl lti fes for men'" S ?5 . housing for women"9 limited and thus fogft Sy3rdS of. gaining adJ?t university or land gl " ' leg-ifheuveslntt state. A number of IS1 -w 11 admit a r stiSA grades out-weighed test Z :V m determining admission 5 son stood alone in givit or attention to test sco determining admissions f . "Where there is a will tli- 9 a way" can no topi fl true for perspective college dents. The future holds fc hope for the 'C student a? dark to non-existent hope fc K the T' student. Since the a ward surge of knowledge sel , ers in 1959, necessity ht 1 forced the slow sure clo " of the nations college doors. ' l ' New Mexico lott g |
