High School: Erasing Borders

Journal of College Admission, Fall 2006 by Wright, Dianne, Bogotch, Ira

Implications for Further Research

It is too early to say whether Florida Atlantic University High School can serve as a model for statewide or even national replication; and the design is too limited. But, the lessons learned are significant and at times, questions are seemingly unending. For example, a substantial economic savings to parents results from this type of early college program, but what if one of these highly-ambitious, bright students wishes to attend an Ivy League school or some other select university? How will a college or university respond to students who might earn 60 or 70 or 95 college credits already completed at another university? How will other universities, outside of the study state, weigh grades of C or D? Will these early college university-high students choose to stay at the partner university? How will these findings hold up to larger quantitative studies. As a beginning to answering some of these question, the researchers of this study plan to examine new students as they enter the program, as well as to follow current and graduating students as they go on to college, adding a longitudinal dimension to the research.

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