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College Admission Nine Students Are Applying for transfer admission to Squirrel

ID: 3150654 • Letter: C

Question

College Admission Nine Students Are Applying for transfer admission to Squirrel U after one semester at Chipmunk Community College As an Admissions Officer, you determine throe to recommend to admit and three to consider You have to process the data and evaluate It according to criteria Personal details are removed from data to minimize bias of any kind and will be considered m a future Admissions Committee meeting Determine the GPA for each student Calculate the number of standard deviations each student's ACT score is above or below the mean (z-score) Calculate the number of standard deviations each student's number of service hours is above or below me mean (z-score) Use the following formula to determine a Student Overall Score* (SOS) for each student (GPA * 2 75) (number of standard deviations ACT score is above/below mean) number of standard deviations service hours is above/below mean) Report the IDs of the three highest scoring students to recommend them for admission Report the IDs of the second three highest scoring students to consider them for admission

Explanation / Answer


Highest scoring ID : SU256, SU456, SU123

Second highest : SU656, SU556, SU345

ACT Servic Hours GPA ACT z-score Svc Hours z-score SOS SU345 25 133 6.94 -0.40 -0.17 18.53 SU567 19 163 5.28 -1.46 1.22 14.27 SU655 30 134 8.33 0.49 -0.12 23.29 SU456 32 138 8.89 0.85 0.06 25.36 SU556 27 146 7.50 -0.04 0.43 21.02 SU123 33 102 9.17 1.03 -1.61 24.63 SU342 23 154 6.39 -0.75 0.80 17.62 SU256 36 100 10.00 1.56 -1.70 27.37 SU298 20 160 5.56 -1.29 1.08 15.07