RE: Survey on prerequisites vs. DWF rate [HAPP-L]

Different states have different entrance requirements for their 2 and 4 year institutions. Some states require that all state schools admit anyone (even to the 4-yr schools and professional programs) with a valid high school diploma from that state, while other states have ACT and GPA admissions requirements for some state schools and not others. One would presume that the fail and drop-out rates might be correlated to the admissions criteria in some way. So maybe the admissions criteria would be the more pertinant data, rather than just the State.

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Subject: Survey on prerequisites vs. DWF rate [HAPP-L]

CARL: I would suggest that "State" and "Country" be a mandatory entry.

Why? Are we intending to analyze differences between the U.S. and Canada? Or differences from one state to another? Unless we have a clearly preconceived use for certain data or comparisons, or a hypothesis in mind that requires information on the state or country, I don't see what the purpose of this information would be. I don't want to collect data just for the sake of data, but only data that would be directly relevant to some sort of hypothesis testing. That said, however, I will tabulate whatever it is the consensus of the listserv members to collect.