Gre Scores As Predictors Of Minority Students' Success In Graduate Study: An Argument For Change - Statistical Data Included

College Student Journal, June, 2001 by Charles Sampson, Patricia G. Boyer

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CHARLES SAMPSON, PH.D.
Graduate School of Public Affairs
University of Missouri-Columbia

PATRICIA G. BOYER, PH.D.
College of Education
University of Missouri-St. Louis