WVSU college admission trend study for SY 2002-2008

Abstract

WVSU is committed to be recognized as the leading institution in providing higher education that meets high academic standards. It aims to attract and admit top performing students in all its academic programs. To determine if high school graduates admitted at indeed well-prepared for college work, this study was conducted to evaluate the performance of enrolled freshmen in the WVSU-College Admission Test (CAT) during the AY 2002-2006. Specifically, the study aimed to describe and compare WVSU-CAT performance of students enrolled in the different academic programs offered by the different colleges at the WVSU-Main Campus for four academic years by subject areas. All freshman students enrolled in the WVSU-Main Campus, first semester SY 2002-2006, were included in the study. BS Nursing consistently topped the group of 17 academic programs offered in the Main campus in terms of WVSU-CAT performance. Its mean score was far above the next in rank with almost all its entrants belonging to the top 25percentilers. BS Information Technology also consistently attracted very good performing freshmen although AB English showed surprisingly high performance in the last year of study. BS Biological Sciences continued to sustain its good performance although it significantly reduced its freshman enrolment. AB Political Science was also able to sustain its relatively good performance with slowly increasing freshman population. Bachelor in Secondary Education has fluctuating freshman population while Bachelor in Elementary Education steadily increased without much improvement in rank in the WVSU-CAT performance. Bachelor in Physical Education and Bachelor in Music Education programs had difficulty attracting high WVSU-CAT performing freshmen although Bachelor in Music Education has slowly improving its profile. Programs under the College of Mass Communications enrolled low to average performing freshmen.