# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S138
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

138 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

tory schools exhibits some very important implications for Syn
future plans in this area of her work.

Table A (on this page) lists the basic figures of the study.
the calculated percentages on the rate of change of admissions:
various class levels. Charts I to VI exhibit both the actual exp
rience data and the mathematically calculated trends indicat
by these data.

It will be noted that the rate of increase of all ministe
enrollments at the preparatory schools during this period is 3.16
but that the rate of increase of enrollments at the college level:
a startling 7%.* In the junior and senior years of the high

Table A — Percentages of Entering Students Admitted to Various
Total Numbers of Entering Students Admitted to All Levels,
Calculated Normal Rates of Change in Admissions Practices

in Ten Preparatory Schools *

1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952. Cl

Percentage. of entering
students admitted to 9th
and 10th grades 721 670 681 639 599 669

Percentage of entering
students admitted to
11th and 12th grades .. 136 179 140 147 217 136
Percentage of entering
students admitted to
Junior College freshman
and sophomore years —. 14.2 151 179 213 185 195
Percentage of entering
students admitted to
llth and 12th grades
and Junior College
freshman and _ sopho-
more years __...____ 279 33.0 319 361 401 33.1
Total numbers of entering
students admitted at all
levels .__-__ 323 312 335 285 369 375
Source of Data: Neeb-Hopmann study of Professional Student
cruitment and Enrollment Practices, January 1, 1953. :
January 15, 1953 Prepared for the Board for Higher Educ
by Watrer Gast

(*) Data exclude transfer students and all Fort Wayne admissions after 19
(**) Based on exponential trend: Y=ab*

* The basic data exclude all transfer students within Synod’s syst
and all college admissions after 1949 at Fort Wayne, where our
mental program is in progress.