This study aims to investigate the adoption and strategy of admissions officer system through analysis among high school grade point averages, the college scholastic aptitude test(CSAT) grades and academic achievements of freshmen in the university. T...
This study aims to investigate the adoption and strategy of admissions officer system through analysis among high school grade point averages, the college scholastic aptitude test(CSAT) grades and academic achievements of freshmen in the university. The object and data of research comprises several averages among high school grade point averages, CSAT grades(linguistics, mathematics, English) and the first year s academic achievements of 6,679 freshmen enrolled during 2005-2009 in A university located in the national capital region. The outcomes resulting from this analysis could be summarized as the followings. First, the average of university academic achievements of students accepted through nonscheduled admission, who got relatively superior high school grade point averages but inferior CSAT grades to students accepted through the regular admission procedure, is lower than that of students admitted during the regular application period. Secondly, there are correlations not only between high school grade point averages and university academic achievements, but also between CSAT grades and university academic achievements. The correlation of the former is higher than that of the latter. Thirdly, the regression analysis for the influence of both high school grade point averages and CSAT grades on university academic achievements shows also that the former is more influential. Based on this analysis, this research makes some suggestions; To take advantage of admissions officer system, each university should prepare educational programs customized for students who got relatively superior high school grade point averages but inferior CSAT grades. It should implement portfolio approach suitable for individual high schools and students. Also, the development of diverse factors and materials for screening is required.