Correlates of behaviors of ``pre-business'' students denied admission to the school of business in a research university
Date of Completion
January 1991
Keywords
Education, Business|Education, Higher
Degree
Ph.D.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the behavior of a sample of 190 students enrolled as "pre-business"' students in a research university's liberal arts college who were denied admission to the university's business school.^ The study first sought to identify selected demographic and educational characteristics of a sample of these students. It next sought to group the students according to four categories: re-petitioners or non-re-petitioners for admission to the business school; selectors or non-selectors of business-related alternate majors. A third phase of the study was the identification of the degree of adequacy in exposure to career planning and counseling on the part of students in the sample.^ Finally, the study sought to identify educational and demographic variables, along with indices of adequacy of exposure to career planning and counseling, which could serve as effective predictors of group membership of students as re-petitioners or non-re-petitioners for admission to the business school and as selectors of business-related or non-business-related alternate majors.^ Educational and demographic data were drawn from student files at the university. Data for the degree of exposure of the students to career planning and counseling were generated by a four-item Likert-type checklist administered to the entire sample.^ Discriminant function analysis compared the principal statistical applications for the study.^ The findings of the study indicated that "pre-business" students enrolled in a college of arts and sciences and denied admission to the university's school of business were similar to other students at the university under study, e.g., SAT-V of 457, SAT-M of 544, high school rank of 73, and university GPA of 2.45. The findings also indicated that the students had serious deficiencies in exposure to career planning and counseling.^ Optimal predictors for group membership as re-petitioners or non-re-petitioners included the degree to which students had studied occupational information before making their first choice of major, SAT-V score, and high school rank.^ Optimal predictors for group membership as selectors of business-related or non-business-related majors included an indicator of the degree to which students had read occupational information before making their second choice of major, SAT-M, and GPA. ^
Recommended Citation
Collis, Jennifer Lynn, "Correlates of behaviors of ``pre-business'' students denied admission to the school of business in a research university" (1991). Doctoral Dissertations. AAI9129920.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/dissertations/AAI9129920