College Readiness

2483 Words5 Pages

Determining college readiness is an essential part in determining who will qualify as a good candidate for admission into a college or a university. The last thing that colleges want is for students to qualify for admission and drop out, this affects drop out rate and graduation rate. According Robin Chait and Andrea Venezia (2009),

to about 83 percent of high school graduates enroll in some form of postsecondary education, but only about 52 percent of students complete their degrees. Further, a very small proportion of students complete a degree in four years—“among students starting at ‘four-year’ institutions, only 34 percent finish a B.A. in four years, 64 percent within six years, and 69 percent within eight and a half years.” Colleges always want students to graduate and support their alma mater. However this begins with deciding what student are mentally readiness and determination for the task that lies ahead, college. In today’s society we struggle trying to find a proper definition for college readiness. This is the main reason statistics and graduation rates suffer in the way that they do. Just because a high school student reaches the age of 18, obtains a high school diploma, and has functional literacy, does that really make students college ready?

Many of us struggle with properly defining college readiness. Some may say that college readiness is the ability to be able to read and write. Some high schools may even feel they are ready simply because they have gotten their high school diploma; however, according to the ACT activity publication college readiness can be defined by the ability to benchmark on the ACT readiness system. In addition students must also have academic behavior which includes studen...

... middle of paper ...

...etrieved from:

http://www.momsmiami.com/?a=profile&u=2&t=blog&blog_id=976

Kelly Roell. ( 2009). SAT Test 101. Retrieved from: http://testprep.about.com/od/sat/a/Basic_SAT_Info.htm

Andrew Ujifusa. (Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010). The Gazette.Net. SAT participation among Montgomery County schools' 2010 minority graduates drops. Retrieved from:

http://www.gazette.net/stories/09222010/montsch231827_32535.php

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. (2006).Black Student College Graduation Rates Remain Low, But Modest Progress Begins to Show. Retrieved from: http://www.jbhe.com/features/50_blackstudent_gradrates.html

David T. Conley. (2008). Education Leadership. Vol. 66 No.2. What makes a student College Ready. Retrieved from: http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct08/vol66/num02/What-Makes-a-Student-College-Ready%C2%A2.aspx

Open Document