This report discusses a multiphase project to develop a user-oriented survey of prior accomplishments of graduate student applicants to aid admissions committees and graduate departments in the selection process. The three phases included: (1) development of three prototype instruments based on a checklist approach, a semi-documented approach, and an open-ended portfolio approach; (2) development of an instrument with a simplified format that contained positive features of the prototypes; and (3) pilot-testing of the simplified version, on newly enrolled graduate students, in 26 university departments (representing fields of English, biology and psychology). The third phase investigated the technical soundness and the feasibility of the instrument's use in the admissions process. Descriptive and correlational analyses of the responses to the inventory were conducted to describe characteristics of the students and the instrument, and to identify the most reliable clusters of items and indices of accomplishment. End-of-the-year follow-ups provided student accomplishment data for analyses of the short-term correlates of the measure. Faculty were interviewed regarding plausibility of the content of the instrument and the utility of various reporting formats. Student reactions were obtained by interview and by additional questions at the end of the inventory. The survey is contained in the appendix. (PN)