Abstract:
The emphasis on college entrance examination scores for college admissions by land grant institutions can be detrimental to rural high school students interested in pursuing higher education in agricultural degree programs. Rural high school students from agriculturally intensive and socioeconomically distressed counties often demonstrate lower college entrance examination scores than their urban counterparts. Through looking at the North Carolina top ten farm cash receipt counties, students residing in these counties exhibit significant score deficits on the SAT and ACT when compared with the students in the urban counties comprising Research Triangle Park (RTP). The three variables observed in this study: agricultural intensity, rural designation and level of socioeconomic distress negatively impacted student scores on the SAT and ACT college entrance examinations.
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