Early graduate school plans: Uninformed expectations?

From: Journal of College Student Development | Date: November 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Sixty-seven percent of a sample of 207 incoming psychology majors voiced plans for graduate school in the field. However, individuals' knowledge of admissions requirements, and own GPAs were not correlated with choice of the advanced degree option, each variable accounting for no more than 1% of the variance in such plans.

Our paper has to do with factors that student affairs practitioners should keep in mind when working with students who might be interested in graduate school. These are matters of considerable scope: a national survey showed that an advanced degree was in the future plans ...

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