Conference Session

Graduate Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Colby Weishaar, University of Arkansas; Manuel D. Rossetti, University of Arkansas; Kim LaScola Needy, University of Arkansas; Eric Specking, University of Arkansas; Trevor Joe Dodson, University of Arkansas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

that these tests are oriented toward the Whitemiddle-class culture [6].” A study conducted in 2010 by Unzueta et al. indicated that the surveyrespondents believed that on the math and verbal sections of the GRE the “participants expectedAsian Americans to score the highest, followed by Whites, then Blacks and Latinos [7].”Moneta-Koehler et al. found in 2017 that “students with a low socioeconomic status (SES)perform worse on standardized tests, and exams like the SAT [and the GRE] are highlycorrelated with parental income [8].” This could be part of the reason as to why groups such asAfrican Americans and Hispanics perform worse on the GRE when compared with the Asian andWhite students. Because the GRE exam costs $205 to take, it may inhibit