Many Universities Use ACT Test Scores as One Criterion for Admission

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Essay

Many universities use ACT test scores as one criterion for admission. Admission counselors believe that the deterministic part of a regression model predicting college GPA at the end of the first year from the ACT score is a straight line. What factors might contribute to the random component? In other words, why might a student's end of year GPA not fall exactly on this line?

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