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Selective Admission

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Process by which an institution, or a program area within the institution, selects students for admission from an applicant pool, considering such factors as academic background, race, sex, or geographic origin
Category: Educational Process: School Perspectives
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Broader Terms
Admission (School)
Narrower Terms
N/A
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Preferential Admission
Restrictive Admission
Selective Colleges (2004)
Special Admission
Related Terms
Academic Standards
Admission Criteria
Affirmative Action
College Admission
Competitive Selection
Desegregation Methods
Educational Discrimination
Equal Education
Gender Discrimination
Open Enrollment
Quotas
Racial Discrimination
Residence Requirements
Reverse Discrimination
Added to ERIC: 10/12/1979