# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S989
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and to Synod.
On the basis of all studies m i
; ade and iti
unique objectives, as well as her uni cisting omen
investments in the higher education
Board continues to

Recommend that the Senior College, as described in its report

to the previous convention
: and approved by j i
the earliest Possible date; and your Board Y th De established **

Enrollment, Admissions, and Transfer Trends
During the past triennium the Board has become aware of

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 191

. of graduations from the preparatory schools without a correspond-

«¢ increase in the total ministerial enrollments, it undertook a de-
ined analysis of this phenomenon. A study of the table and the
rare which follow will indicate that, during the past six years,

enrollment pattern in the ministerial division of our prepara~
the schools exhibits some very important implications for Synod’s
ature plans in this area of her work.

Table A (on this page) lists the basic figures of the study and
the calculated percentages on the rate of change of admissions at
various class levels. Charts I to VI exhibit both the actual expe-

ience data and the mathematically calculated trends indicated
by these data. tc tet

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

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

in Ten Preparatory Schools * Normal

Annual

Rate of

147 = «1948 194919502951 1952 Change **

Percentage of entering
‘students admitted to 9th

and 10th grades

(Decrease)

Percentage of entering
students admitted to
llth and 12th grades _ 136 179 140 147 21.7 136 1.71%

Percentage of entering

students admitted to

Junior College freshman

and sophomore years _. 142 151 179 213 185 195 7.00%

Percentage of entering
students admitted to
lth and l2th grades

: and sopho-
more years _______._ 279 330 319 361 401 331 4.56%
Total numbers of entering
students admitted at all .
levels . 323-312) 335) 285) 3369S 375 3.16%

Source of Data: Neeb-Hopmann study of Professional Student Re-
cruitment and Enrollment Practices, January 1, 1953.

January 15, 1953 Prepared for the Board for Higher Education

by Watter Gasr

{22 Data exclude transfer students and all Fort Wayne admissions after 1949.

**) Based on exponential trend: ¥Y=abx

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

721° 67.0 681 639 599 669 2.19%