Mccain-Idaho Future Study

The question of application deadlines as a predictor of college success has been of interest to BYU-Idaho for some time. While BYU-Idaho does have a priority deadline for applications, it is always accepting applications and completes the admission process year round, due to the three-track enrollment system. BYU-Idaho also has a unique body of applicants since almost all come from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sometimes applicants are high school students moving on to higher education, some are recently returned missionaries for the church who may not have planned on attending school and are applying last minute, and still others are graduates of the Pathway program moving over to the online or day program at the university. Another point of interest in …show more content…
If this study were to be performed again it would be interesting to run a restricted model with domestic students to see how the model changes when high school GPA is used as an independent variable. This would likely result in more predictive power. The results of this study support BYU-Idaho’s current model of admissions practices. That is for BYU-Idaho not to enforce strict deadlines for applications, but rather allow students to apply at any time, admitting them to the school on short notice at times. This allows students to begin their education with little notice, with no major effect on their GPA. This also makes sense for BYU-Idaho’s three-track enrollment system allowing the university to expand enrollment to maximize the use of its resources. This study also sheds light on another question not originally considered in this study: Is the Pathway Program adequately preparing its students for college success? It would be interesting to take a sample of Pathway students and see how they perform, especially for those students that are working on English as a second language in