UNSTACK THE ODDS: ZAP THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP SO ALL STUDENTS CAN ACCESS COLLEGE--AND GRADUATE!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danielle-wienerbronner/which-collegerankings-se_b_716526.html 56. Wait-List Sometimes, a college or university won't either accept or reject a student's application for admission--rather, it will put them on its "wait-list." These lists can range in size from hundreds to thousands of students who still await a decision on their application's acceptance or rejection. Many students will opt not to keep a place on the wait-list and, instead, decide to accept another school's offer of admission. Other applicants, however, decide to remain on the wait-list until they hear, one way or the other, if they will be asked to enroll.

To read Lynn O'Shaughnessy's blog-post "Getting Off a College Wait List: 5 Things to Do Now," click this link: http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/college-solution/getting-offa-college-wait-list-things-to-do-now/1846/?tag=col1;blog-river To read "The Early Line on Admission Yields (and Wait-List Offers)," by Jacques Steinberg in his blog of May 12, 2010, for The New York Times, click this link: http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/yield-3/#more-20099 65. Graduation Rates in Ohio As the cost of college increases, more attention is being paid to the percentage of students who graduate from particular schools. A report entitled "Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don‘t)," dated June 2009, was written by Frederick M. Hess, Mark Schneider, Kevin Carey, and Andrew P. Kelly as A Project of the American Enterprise Institute.

Using 6-year percentages reported by the colleges and universities to the U. S. Department of Education for the student cohort enrolling in 2001, the authors compared graduation rates by various levels of schools' selectivity, according to groupings in Barronâ€&#x;s Profiles of American Colleges. The 6-year graduation rates for colleges and universities in Ohio from this report (pp. 59-61) have been copied and pasted below in this link to our MVCAP blog.

The entire report can be accessed at this link: http://www.reducemycollegecosts.com/wpcontent/uploads/2010/04/graduation-rates-for-all-states-6-091.pdf 66. Transfer Admissions Many students--approximately 1/3--will transfer from one college to another before graduating. The criteria used for transfer admissions can be different 235