THE PREDICTION OF ACADEMIC AND ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT AT A SCHOOL OF DESIGN

Abstract

Admission to selective liberal arts or technical institutions is never without error, but such decisions are generally rendered more accurate through the use of secondary school records and tests of academic potential. Not all selective institutions, however, can use such tools. Institutions that provide training in fine arts and design fields, such as architecture, industrial design, or painting, may find that the usual predictors are relatively useless. Not only do courses in various artistic areas differ radically in content from liberal arts courses, but art or design courses may also differ from one another. And if a school of design also requires the student to take college-level liberal arts courses, the admissions problem would appear to become very complex indeed.