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Bowling Green State University

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A Statistical Study Of Student Success In The Bgsu Honors College, Sarah Hercules Dec 2017

A Statistical Study Of Student Success In The Bgsu Honors College, Sarah Hercules

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Higher education has long tried to find the best measures to predict student success. Different colleges often have different guidelines, requiring different criteria to be evaluated. The BGSU Honors College has struggled with retention and recruitment of underrepresented students with their current admission criteria. This analysis studies different measures of student success such as BGSU GPA and number of completed Honors credits for high-achieving BGSU students who enrolled from Fall 2013 through Fall 2016 to find the best predictors of student success through regression analysis. Throughout this paper, the impact of ethnicity, gender, the college of a student’s program, high …