Patent ID: 8725655
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for identifying and recruiting applicants for admission to a graduate school, said method comprising: identifying a pool of standardized test takers who possess undergraduate GPA (UGPA) and standardized test score combinations that are insufficient to gain regular admission to a graduate school, wherein the identifying is performed using a computer product that correlates the test takers' UGPAs and test scores to a predetermined shifting range of UGPAs and test scores, wherein said identifying further comprises computing a shifting range of test scores and UGPAs for said test takers, and identifying those test takers having a test score and UGPA falling within said shifting range; offering a program for admission to the graduate school to the identified test takers, wherein the program for admission includes an abbreviated academic program that includes at least two abbreviated courses from the graduate school curriculum conducted over a shortened academic term; providing instruction in the abbreviated academic program to the test takers who accept the offer to participate in the program for admission; administering to test takers in the program for admission at least one examination for each said abbreviated course during said abbreviated academic program; scoring each said examination based on a calibrated grading process and using scores from each said examination to calculate a composite score for each test taker in the program for admission; determining, via a computer, a score that correlates with a satisfactory level of academic success achieved by regularly admitted students at the graduate school; determining which test takers achieve a composite score that exceeds the score that is determined to correlate with the satisfactory level of academic success achieved by regularly admitted students at the graduate school and therefore should be admitted into the graduate school; and admitting to the graduate school those test takers determined to have achieved a composite score that exceeds the score that is determined to correlate with the satisfactory level of academic success at the graduate school achieved by regularly admitted students at the graduate school.